Abstract
A measurement is performed of the cross section of top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb\(^{-1}\), collected by the CMS experiment in 2016. The measurement is performed in the same-sign dilepton, three- and four-lepton final states. The production cross sections are measured to be \(\sigma(\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{W})= 0.77 ^{+0.12}_{-0.11}\text{(stat)} ^{+0.13}_{-0.12}\text{(syst)}\) pb and \(\sigma(\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{Z}) = 0.99 ^{+0.09}_{-0.08}\text{(stat)} ^{+0.12}_{-0.10}\text{(syst)}\) pb. The expected (observed) signal significance for the \(\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{W}\) production in same-sign dilepton channel is found to be 4.5 (5.3) standard deviations, while for the \(\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{Z}\) production in three- and four-lepton channels both the expected and the observed significances are found to be in excess of 5 standard deviations. The results are in agreement with the standard model predictions and are used to constrain the Wilson coefficients for eight dimension-six operators describing new interactions that would modify \(\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{W}\) and \(\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{Z}\) production.