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Spin Correlations in tt Events from pp Collisions pp 83–92Cite as

Dataset, Signal and Background Modelling

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Physics results in high energy physics experiments can often only be obtained by the comparison of simulated to measured events. This includes the signal and background events of which some are estimated by data-driven methods.

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Notes

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    A block of data taking usually starts with the beginning of collisions and end with a beam dump.

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    In most of the other cases HERWIG served as parton shower and hadronisation generator and JIMMY for the underlying event model.

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    Hence it is also called multijet background or misidentified lepton background.

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    The transverse W boson mass is defined as \( W_{m^{T}}= \sqrt{2 \textit{p}_\mathrm{{T}}^l \textit{p}_\mathrm{{T}}^\nu ( 1 - \cos (\phi ^l - \phi ^\nu ))}\).

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Lemmer, B. (2015). Dataset, Signal and Background Modelling. In: Spin Correlations in tt Events from pp Collisions. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18932-1_4

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