Observation of four top quark production in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

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doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138290

Observation of four top quark production in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

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Abstract

The observation of the production of four top quarks in proton-proton collisions is reported, based on a data sample collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016–2018 at the CERN LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb⁻¹. Events with two same-sign, three, or four charged leptons (electrons and muons) and additional jets are analyzed. Compared to previous results in these channels, updated identification techniques for charged leptons and jets originating from the hadronization of b quarks, as well as a revised multivariate analysis strategy to distinguish the signal process from the main backgrounds, lead to an improved expected signal significance of 4.9 standard deviations above the background-only hypothesis. Four top quark production is observed with a significance of 5.6 standard deviations, and its cross section is measured to be 17.7_−3.5^+3.7(stat)_−1.9^+2.3(syst)fb, in agreement with the available standard model predictions.

Original language	English
Article number	138290
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	847
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138290
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2023
Externally published	Yes

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Observation of four top quark production in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

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