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Measurement of the production cross section for a W boson and two b jets in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV
(2014)Physics Letters BThe production cross section for a W boson and two b jets is measured using proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV in a data sample collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb-1. The W+bb- events are selected in the W→μν decay mode by requiring a muon with transverse momentum pT > 25 GeV and pseudorapidity |η| < 2.1, and exactly two b-tagged jets with pT > 25 GeV and |η| < 2.4. The measured ...Journal Article -
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at √s= 8 TeV in events with a single lepton, large jet multiplicity, and multiple b jets
(2014)Physics Letters BResults are reported from a search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, based on events with a single isolated lepton (electron or muon) and multiple jets, at least two of which are identified as b jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.3 fb(-1) recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2012. The search is motivated by supersymmetric models that involve strong-production ...Journal Article -
Observation of a peaking structure in the J/ψφ mass spectrum from B±→J/ψφK± decays
(2014)Physics Letters BA peaking structure in the J/ψφ mass spectrum near threshold is observed in B ±→J/ψφK± decays, produced in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The data sample, selected on the basis of the dimuon decay mode of the J/ψ, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.2 fb-1. Fitting the structure to an S-wave relativistic Breit-Wigner lineshape above a three-body phase-space nonresonant component gives a ...Journal Article -
Measurement of Inclusive W and Z Boson Production Cross Sections in pp Collisions at √s =8 Te V
(2014)Physical Review LettersA measurement of total and fiducial inclusive W and Z boson production cross sections in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV is presented. Electron and muon final states are analyzed in a data sample collected with the CMS detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.2±0.5 pb−1. The measured total inclusive cross sections times branching fractions are σ(pp→WX)×B(W→ℓν)=12.21±0.03(stat)±0.24(syst)±0.32(lum) nb and σ(pp→ZX)×B(Z→ℓ+ℓ−)= ...Journal Article -
Search for baryon number violation in top-quark decays
(2014)Physics Letters BA search for baryon number violation (BNV) in top-quark decays is performed using pp collisions produced by the LHC at s=8 TeV. The top-quark decay considered in this search results in one light lepton (muon or electron), two jets, but no neutrino in the final state. Data used for the analysis were collected by the CMS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb-1. The event selection is optimized for top quarks produced ...Journal Article -
Modification of jet shapes in PbPb collisions at sNN=2.76TeV
(2014)Physics Letters BThe first measurement of jet shapes, defined as the fractional transverse momentum radial distribution, for inclusive jets produced in heavy-ion collisions is presented. Data samples of PbPb and pp collisions, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 150 mu b(-1) and 5.3 pb(-1) respectively, were collected at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The jets are reconstructed ...Journal Article -
Searches for light- and heavy-flavour three-jet resonances in pp collisions at √s=8TeV
(2014)Physics Letters BA search for three-jet hadronic resonance production in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.4 fb(-1). The search method is model independent, and events are selected that have high jet multiplicity and large values of jet transverse momenta. The signal models explored assume R-parity-violating supersymmetric ...Journal Article -
Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks
(2014)Physical Review DA search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) decaying to b¯b when produced in association with a weak vector boson (V) is reported for the following channels: W(μν)H, W(eν)H, W(τν)H, Z(μμ)H, Z(ee)H, and Z(νν)H. The search is performed in data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 inverse femtobarns at √s=7 TeV and up to 18.9 fb−1 at √s=8 TeV, recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. An excess of events is ...Journal Article -
Determination of the top-quark pole mass and strong coupling constant from the tt¯ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
(2014)Physics Letters BThe inclusive cross section for top-quark pair production measured by the CMS experiment in proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is compared to the QCD prediction at next-to-next-to-leading order with various parton distribution functions to determine the top-quark pole mass, mt pole, or the strong coupling constant, αS. With the parton distribution function set NNPDF2.3, a pole mass of 176.7−3.4 +3.8 GeV is obtained ...Journal Article -
Measurement of the Wγ and Zγ inclusive cross sections in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV and limits on anomalous triple gauge boson couplings
(2014)Physical Review DMeasurements of Wγ and Zγ production in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV are used to extract limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings. The results are based on data recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC that correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb−1. The cross sections are measured for photon transverse momenta pγT>15 GeV, and for separations between photons and final-state charged leptons in the pseudorapidity-azimuthal ...Journal Article