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An embedding technique to determine backgrounds in proton-proton collision data
CMS Collaboration
An embedding technique is presented to estimate standard model backgrounds from data with minimal simulation input. In the data, the muons are removed from reconstructed …
Measurements of jet charge with dijet events in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
CMS Collaboration
Jet charge is an estimator of the electric charge of a quark, antiquark, or gluon initiating a jet. It is based on the momentum-weighted sum of the electric charges of the jet cons…
Search for heavy resonances decaying into a vector boson and a Higgs boson in final states with charged leptons, neutrinos, and b quarks
CMS Collaboration
A search for heavy resonances decaying to a Higgs boson and a vector boson is presented. The analysis is performed using data samples collected in 2015 by the CMS experiment at the…
Search for top quark decays via Higgs-boson-mediated flavor-changing neutral currents in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
CMS Collaboration
A search is performed for Higgs-boson-mediated flavor-changing neutral currents in the decays of top quarks. The search is based on proton-proton collision data corresponding to an…
Studies of inclusive four-jet production with two b-tagged jets in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV
CMS Collaboration
Measurements are presented of the cross section for the production of at least four jets, of which at least two originate from b quarks, in proton-proton collisions. Data collected…
Search for pair-produced resonances decaying to jet pairs in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
CMS Collaboration
Results are reported of a general search for pair production of heavy resonances decaying to pairs of jets in events with at least four jets. The study is based on up to 19.4 inver…
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions
CMS Collaboration
A search for neutral Higgs bosons in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) decaying to tau-lepton pairs in pp collisions is performed, using events reco…
Measurements of jet multiplicity and differential production cross sections of Z + jets events in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
CMS Collaboration
Measurements of differential cross sections are presented for the production of a Z boson and at least one hadronic jet in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, recorded by…
Search for heavy neutrinos and W bosons with right-handed couplings in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
CMS Collaboration
A search for heavy, right-handed neutrinos, N[l] (l = e, mu), and right-handed WR bosons, which arise in the left-right symmetric extensions of the standard model, has been perform…
Search for supersymmetry with razor variables in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
The CMS Collaboration
The razor approach to search for R-parity conserving supersymmetric particles is described in detail. Two analyses are considered: an inclusive search for new heavy particle pairs…
Measurement of the ZZ production cross section and search for anomalous couplings in 2l2l' final states in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
CMS Collaboration
A measurement is presented of the ZZ production cross section in the ZZ to 2l 2l' decay mode with l = e, mu and l' = e, mu, tau in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with…
Measurement of the top-quark mass in t t-bar events with lepton+jets final states in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
The CMS Collaboration
The mass of the top quark is measured using a sample of t t-bar candidate events with one electron or muon and at least four jets in the final state, collected by CMS in pp collisi…
Measurement of the t t-bar production cross section in the dilepton channel in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
CMS Collaboration
The t t-bar production cross section (sigma[t t-bar]) is measured in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in data collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integr…
Search for flavor changing neutral currents in top quark decays in pp collisions at 7 TeV
CMS Collaboration
The results of a search for flavor changing neutral currents in top quark decays t to Zq in events with a topology compatible with the decay chain t t-bar to Wb + Zq to ell nu b +…
Search for anomalous production of multilepton events in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
CMS Collaboration
A search for anomalous production of events with three or more isolated leptons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is presented. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosit…
Search for heavy bottom-like quarks in 4.9 inverse femtobarns of pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
CMS Collaboration
Results are presented from a search for heavy bottom-like quarks, pair-produced in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, undertaken with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The b' quarks ar…
Search for the standard model Higgs boson in the H to ZZ to ll tau tau decay channel in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV
The CMS Collaboration
A search is reported for the standard model Higgs boson in the decay mode H to ZZ to tau plus lepton pairs, where the leptons are either electrons or muons, in proton-proton collis…