Search for CP violation in events with top quarks and Z bosons at √s=13 and 13.6 TeV

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3A10511262" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:10511262 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=1Ukzt_finy" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=1Ukzt_finy</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139857" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139857</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Search for CP violation in events with top quarks and Z bosons at √s=13 and 13.6 TeV

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

A search for the violation of the charge-parity (CP) symmetry in the production of top quarks in association with Z bosons is presented, using events with at least three charged leptons and additional jets. The search is performed in a sample of proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016-2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and in 2022 at 13.6 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 173 fb(-1). For the first time in this final state, observables that are odd under the CP transformation are employed. Also for the first time, physics-informed machine-learning techniques are used to construct these observables. While for standard model (SM) processes the distributions of these observables are predicted to be symmetric around zero, CP-violating modifications of the SM would introduce asymmetries. Two CP-odd operators O-Wt(I) and O-tZ(I) in the SM effective field theory are considered that may modify the interactions between top quarks and electroweak bosons. The obtained results are consistent with the SM prediction within two standard deviations, and exclusion limits on the associated Wilson coefficients of -2.7 &lt; c(tW)(I) &lt; 2.5 and -0.2 &lt; c(tZ)(I) &lt; 2.0 are set at 95% confidence level. The largest discrepancy is observed in CtZI where data is consistent with positive values, with an observed local significance with respect to the SM hypothesis of 2.5 standard deviations, when only linear terms are considered.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Search for CP violation in events with top quarks and Z bosons at √s=13 and 13.6 TeV

Popis výsledku anglicky

A search for the violation of the charge-parity (CP) symmetry in the production of top quarks in association with Z bosons is presented, using events with at least three charged leptons and additional jets. The search is performed in a sample of proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016-2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and in 2022 at 13.6 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 173 fb(-1). For the first time in this final state, observables that are odd under the CP transformation are employed. Also for the first time, physics-informed machine-learning techniques are used to construct these observables. While for standard model (SM) processes the distributions of these observables are predicted to be symmetric around zero, CP-violating modifications of the SM would introduce asymmetries. Two CP-odd operators O-Wt(I) and O-tZ(I) in the SM effective field theory are considered that may modify the interactions between top quarks and electroweak bosons. The obtained results are consistent with the SM prediction within two standard deviations, and exclusion limits on the associated Wilson coefficients of -2.7 &lt; c(tW)(I) &lt; 2.5 and -0.2 &lt; c(tZ)(I) &lt; 2.0 are set at 95% confidence level. The largest discrepancy is observed in CtZI where data is consistent with positive values, with an observed local significance with respect to the SM hypothesis of 2.5 standard deviations, when only linear terms are considered.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10300 - Physical sciences

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LM2023040" target="_blank" >LM2023040: Výzkumná infrastruktura pro experimenty v CERN</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

ISSN

0370-2693

e-ISSN

1873-2445

Svazek periodika

869

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

Aug 25

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

139857

Kód UT WoS článku

001617228300001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105017450573