Search for the production of four top quarks in the single-lepton and opposite-sign dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at s√ = 13 TeV
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Abstract
A search for the standard model production of four top quarks (pp → t¯tt¯t) is reported using single-lepton plus jets and opposite-sign dilepton plus jets signatures. Proton-proton collisions are recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-ofmass energy of 13 TeV in a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.8 fb−1. A multivariate analysis exploiting global event and jet properties is used to discriminate t¯tt¯t from t¯t production. No significant deviation is observed from the predicted background. An upper limit is set on the cross section for t¯tt¯t production in the standard model of 48 fb at 95% confidence level. When combined with a previous measurement by the CMS
experiment from an analysis of other final states, the observed signal significance is 1.4 standard deviations, and the combined cross section measurement is 13+11−9 fb. The result
is also interpreted in the framework of effective field theory.
Source :
Journal of High Energy Physics
Date :
2019-11-14
Issue :
11
Publisher :
Springer Nature
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