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Recent measurements of top cross sections at CMS
by Javier del Riego Badas
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Javier Del Riego Badas |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19767v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | Dec. 2, 2024, 1:54 p.m. |
| Submitted by: | Javier Del Riego Badas |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | The 17th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2024) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Experimental |
Abstract
This contribution presents recent cross section measurements for top quark pair production (tt) and single top quark production in association with a W boson (tW) in proton-proton collisions at the CMS experiment at LHC. For tt production, data from 2017 at a center-of-mass (CM) energy of 5.02 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 302 pb^-1 were analyzed, with a measured inclusive cross section of 62.3 +- 1.5 (stat) +- 2.4 (syst) +- 1.2 (lumi) pb, consistent with standard model (SM) predictions. The tW measurement was performed using data from 2022 with an integrated luminosity of 34.7 fb^-1 at a CM energy of 13.6 TeV, yielding a cross section of 82.3 +- 2.1 (stat) +9.9,-9.7 (syst) +- 3.3 (lumi) pb, in agreement with SM predictions. It includes also differential cross sections which are in good agreement with next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics.
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I recommend the paper for publication. However I think in several places the English should be improved (see comments below).
- title: 'quark' is missing : top-quark cross sections
- abstract: at the CMS experiment -> with the CMS experiment
- abstract: standard model -> Standard Model
- in several places the unit is cut at the beginning in a next line (pb in the abstract, GeV in several other places in the text, like Section 3.1 twice and Section 4)
- Section 1: could vary its cross section -> could modify its cross section
- Section 1: Also, tW ... : this sentence doesn't have a verb
- Section 1: single-top quark LHC result
- Section 2: title "Analysis" : I guess it would be more informative to state that this is about cross section measurement (same for title of Section 3)
- Section 2.1: are incorporated via MC -> are modeled using MC
- Section 2.2: it is stated that the result is combined with the dilepton channel but the result of the combination is not quoted
- Section 3.1: add an explanation or a reference for the DR scheme (same in Section 3.2 for the DS scheme)
Recommendation
Ask for minor revision
Author: Javier Del Riego Badas on 2025-04-08 [id 5354]
(in reply to Report 1 on 2025-04-08)Dear Referee 1,
Thank you for your revision, I have updated the document including your editorial suggestions. Just two minor comments:
I would like to know which are the next steps regarding the resubmission of the updated version.
Best, The Author
Anonymous on 2025-04-15 [id 5374]
(in reply to Javier Del Riego Badas on 2025-04-08 [id 5354])Thanks for the update.
About the combination, then I would advise to clarify the text so that we know exactly what is quoted.