Evidence for tWZ production in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV in multilepton final states

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2024
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The first evidence for the standard model production of a top quark in association with a W boson and a Z boson is reported. The measurement is performed in multilepton final states, where the Z boson is reconstructed via its decays to electron or muon pairs. At least one W boson, associated or from top quark decay, decays leptonically, too. The analysed data were recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016–2018 in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The measured cross section is 354±54(stat)±95(syst) fb, and corresponds to a statistical significance of 3.4 standard deviations.

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The CMS Collaboration. (2024). Evidence for tWZ production in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV in multilepton final states. Physics Letters B, 855, 138815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138815

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