Single top production in association with a WZ boson pair at the CMS experiment / vorgelegt von Alberto Belvedere. Wuppertal, 2025
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Theoretical framework
- The Standard Model of particle physics
- Quantum chromodynamics
- Electroweak theory
- The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
- Fermion mixing and CKM matrix
- Observed shortcomings of the Standard Model
- Hadron collider physics
- The top quark
- The Standard Model Effective Field Theory
- SMEFT interpretation of the tWZ measurement
- The experiment
- Physics object reconstruction
- Event selection and categorization
- Machine learning for tWZ identification
- Statistical treatment and systematic uncertainties
- Fake lepton estimation
- Results
- Conclusions