Search for Physics beyond the Standard Model in Top Quark Production with Additional Leptons in the Context of Effective Field Theory
Journal of High Energy Physics 2023
Kārlis Dreimanis, Antra Gaile, Guntis Pikurs, Andris Potrebko, Markus Seidel, Viesturs Veckalns, CMS Collaboration

A search for new physics in top quark production with additional final-state leptons is performed using data collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV at the LHC during 2016–2018. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. Using the framework of effective field theory (EFT), potential new physics effects are parametrized in terms of 26 dimension-six EFT operators. The impacts of EFT operators are incorporated through the event-level reweighting of Monte Carlo simulations, which allows for detector-level predictions. The events are divided into several categories based on lepton multiplicity, total lepton charge, jet multiplicity, and b-tagged jet multiplicity. Kinematic variables corresponding to the transverse momentum (pT) of the leading pair of leptons and/or jets as well as the pT of on-shell Z bosons are used to extract the 95% confidence intervals of the 26 Wilson coefficients corresponding to these EFT operators. No significant deviation with respect to the standard model prediction is found.


Keywords
Beyond Standard Model Hadron-Hadron Scattering Top Physics
DOI
10.1007/JHEP12(2023)068
Hyperlink
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP12(2023)068

The CMS Collaboration, Dreimanis, K., Gaile, A., Pikurs, G., Potrebko, A., Seidel, M., Veckalns, V. ... [et al.] Search for Physics beyond the Standard Model in Top Quark Production with Additional Leptons in the Context of Effective Field Theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, Vol. 2023, No. 12, Article number 68. e-ISSN 1029-8479. Available from: doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2023)068

Publication language
English (en)
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