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Observation of tW production in the single-lepton channel in pp collisions at s√ = 13 TeV

A measurement of the cross section of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson in final states with a muon or electron and jets in proton-proton collisions at s√ = 13 TeV is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2016. A boosted decision tree is used to separate the tW signal from the dominant tt¯ background, whilst the subleading W+jets and multijet backgrounds are constrained using data-based estimates. This result is the first observation of the tW process in final states containing a muon or electron and jets, with a significance exceeding 5 standard deviations. The cross section is determined to be 89 ± 4 (stat) ± 12 (syst) pb, consistent with the standard model.

High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Radiation-hard detectors ; Si microstrip and pad detectors ; Radiation damage to detector materials (solid state) ; Particle tracking detectors (Solid-state detectors) ; radiation: damage ; CMS: upgrade ; tracking detector ; semiconductor detector: design ; semiconductor detector: microstrip ; performance ; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) ; Top physics ; p p: scattering ; p p: colliding beams ; top: single production

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