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1 \section{Data Driven Background Estimation Methods}
2 \label{sec:datadriven}
3 We have developed two data-driven methods to
4 estimate the background in the signal region.
5 The first one exploits the fact that
6 SumJetPt and \met$/\sqrt{\rm SumJetPt}$ are nearly
7 uncorrelated for the $t\bar{t}$ background
8 (Section~\ref{sec:abcd}); the second one
9 is based on the fact that in $t\bar{t}$ the
10 $P_T$ of the dilepton pair is on average
11 nearly the same as the $P_T$ of the pair of neutrinos
12 from $W$-decays, which is reconstructed as \met in the
13 detector.
14
15
16 %{\color{red} I took these
17 %numbers from the twiki, rescaling from 11.06 to 30/pb.
18 %They seem too large...are they really right?}
19
20
21 \subsection{ABCD method}
22 \label{sec:abcd}
23
24 We find that in $t\bar{t}$ events SumJetPt and
25 \met$/\sqrt{\rm SumJetPt}$ are nearly uncorrelated,
26 as demonstrated in Fig.~\ref{fig:uncor}.
27 Thus, we can use an ABCD method in the \met$/\sqrt{\rm SumJetPt}$ vs
28 sumJetPt plane to estimate the background in a data driven way.
29
30 %\begin{figure}[bht]
31 %\begin{center}
32 %\includegraphics[width=0.75\linewidth]{uncorrelated.pdf}
33 %\caption{\label{fig:uncor}\protect Distributions of SumJetPt
34 %in MC $t\bar{t}$ events for different intervals of
35 %MET$/\sqrt{\rm SumJetPt}$.}
36 %\end{center}
37 %\end{figure}
38
39 \begin{figure}[bht]
40 \begin{center}
41 \includegraphics[width=0.75\linewidth]{uncor.png}
42 \caption{\label{fig:uncor}\protect Distributions of SumJetPt
43 in MC $t\bar{t}$ events for different intervals of
44 MET$/\sqrt{\rm SumJetPt}$. h1, h2, and h3 refer to the MET$/\sqrt{\rm SumJetPt}$
45 intervals 4.5-6.5, 6.5-8.5 and $>$8.5, respectively.}
46 \end{center}
47 \end{figure}
48
49 \begin{figure}[tb]
50 \begin{center}
51 \includegraphics[width=0.75\linewidth]{ttdil_uncor_38X.png}
52 \caption{\label{fig:abcdMC}\protect Distributions of MET$/\sqrt{\rm SumJetPt}$ vs.
53 SumJetPt for SM Monte Carlo. Here we also show our choice of ABCD regions. The correlation coefficient
54 ${\rm corr_{XY}}$ is computed for events falling in the ABCD regions.}
55 \end{center}
56 \end{figure}
57
58
59 Our choice of ABCD regions is shown in Figure~\ref{fig:abcdMC}.
60 The signal region is region D. The expected number of events
61 in the four regions for the SM Monte Carlo, as well as the background
62 prediction A $\times$ C / B are given in Table~\ref{tab:abcdMC} for an integrated
63 luminosity of 35 pb$^{-1}$. In Table~\ref{tab:abcdsyst}, we test the stability of
64 observed/predicted with respect to variations in the ABCD boundaries.
65 Based on the results in Tables~\ref{tab:abcdMC} and~\ref{tab:abcdsyst}, we assess
66 a systematic uncertainty of 20\% on the prediction of the ABCD method.
67
68 %As shown in Table~\ref{tab:abcdsyst}, we assess systematic uncertainties
69 %by varying the boundaries by an amount consistent with the hadronic energy scale uncertainty,
70 %which we take as $\pm$5\% for SumJetPt and $\pm$2.5\% for MET/$\sqrt{\rm SumJetPt}$, since the
71 %uncertainty on this quantity partially cancels due to the fact that it is a ratio of correlated
72 %quantities. Based on these studies we assess a correction factor $k_{ABCD} = 1.2 \pm 0.2$ to the
73 %predicted yield using the ABCD method.
74
75
76 %{\color{red} Avi wants some statement about stability
77 %wrt changes in regions. I am not sure that we have done it and
78 %I am not sure it is necessary (Claudio).}
79
80 \begin{table}[ht]
81 \begin{center}
82 \caption{\label{tab:abcdMC} Expected SM Monte Carlo yields for
83 35 pb$^{-1}$ in the ABCD regions, as well as the predicted yield in
84 the signal region given by A $\times$ C / B. Here `SM other' is the sum
85 of non-dileptonic $t\bar{t}$ decays, $W^{\pm}$+jets, $W^+W^-$,
86 $W^{\pm}Z^0$, $Z^0Z^0$ and single top.}
87 \begin{tabular}{lccccc}
88 \hline
89 sample & A & B & C & D & A $\times$ C / B \\
90 \hline
91 $t\bar{t}\rightarrow \ell^{+}\ell^{-}$ & 8.27 $\pm$ 0.18 & 32.16 $\pm$ 0.35 & 4.69 $\pm$ 0.13 & 1.05 $\pm$ 0.06 & 1.21 $\pm$ 0.04 \\
92 $Z^0 \rightarrow \ell^{+}\ell^{-}$ & 0.22 $\pm$ 0.11 & 1.54 $\pm$ 0.29 & 0.05 $\pm$ 0.05 & 0.16 $\pm$ 0.09 & 0.01 $\pm$ 0.01 \\
93 SM other & 0.54 $\pm$ 0.03 & 2.28 $\pm$ 0.12 & 0.23 $\pm$ 0.03 & 0.07 $\pm$ 0.01 & 0.05 $\pm$ 0.01 \\
94 \hline
95 total SM MC & 9.03 $\pm$ 0.21 & 35.97 $\pm$ 0.46 & 4.97 $\pm$ 0.15 & 1.29 $\pm$ 0.11 & 1.25 $\pm$ 0.05 \\
96 \hline
97 \end{tabular}
98 \end{center}
99 \end{table}
100
101
102
103 \begin{table}[ht]
104 \begin{center}
105 \caption{\label{tab:abcdsyst}
106 {\bf \color{red} Do we need this study at all? Observed/predicted is consistent within stat uncertainties as the boundaries are varied- is it enough to simply state this fact in the text??? }
107 Results of the systematic study of the ABCD method by varying the boundaries
108 between the ABCD regions shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:abcdMC}. Here $x_1$ is the lower SumJetPt boundary and
109 $x_2$ is the boundary separating regions A and B from C and D, their nominal values are 125 and 300~GeV,
110 respectively. $y_1$ is the lower MET/$\sqrt{\rm SumJetPt}$ boundary and
111 $y_2$ is the boundary separating regions B and C from A and D, their nominal values are 4.5 and 8.5~GeV$^{1/2}$,
112 respectively.}
113 \begin{tabular}{cccc|c}
114 \hline
115 $x_1$ & $x_2$ & $y_1$ & $y_2$ & Observed/Predicted \\
116 \hline
117 nominal & nominal & nominal & nominal & $1.03 \pm 0.10$ \\
118 +5\% & +5\% & +2.5\% & +2.5\% & $1.13 \pm 0.13$ \\
119 +5\% & +5\% & nominal & nominal & $1.08 \pm 0.12$ \\
120 nominal & nominal & +2.5\% & +2.5\% & $1.07 \pm 0.11$ \\
121 nominal & +5\% & nominal & +2.5\% & $1.09 \pm 0.12$ \\
122 nominal & -5\% & nominal & -2.5\% & $0.98 \pm 0.08$ \\
123 -5\% & -5\% & +2.5\% & +2.5\% & $1.03 \pm 0.09$ \\
124 +5\% & +5\% & -2.5\% & -2.5\% & $1.03 \pm 0.11$ \\
125 \hline
126 \end{tabular}
127 \end{center}
128 \end{table}
129
130 \subsection{Dilepton $P_T$ method}
131 \label{sec:victory}
132 This method is based on a suggestion by V. Pavlunin\cite{ref:victory},
133 and was investigated by our group in 2009\cite{ref:ourvictory}.
134 The idea is that in dilepton $t\bar{t}$ events the lepton and neutrinos
135 from $W$ decays have the same $P_T$ spectrum (modulo $W$ polarization
136 effects). One can then use the observed
137 $P_T(\ell\ell)$ distribution to model the sum of neutrino $P_T$'s which
138 is identified with the \met.
139
140 Then, in order to predict the $t\bar{t} \to$ dilepton contribution to a
141 selection with \met$+$X, one applies a cut on $P_T(\ell\ell)+$X instead.
142 In practice one has to rescale the result of the $P_T(\ell\ell)+$X selection
143 to account for the fact that any dilepton selection must include a
144 moderate \met cut in order to reduce Drell Yan backgrounds. This
145 is discussed in Section 5.3 of Reference~\cite{ref:ourvictory}; for a \met
146 cut of 50 GeV, the rescaling factor is obtained from the MC as
147
148 \newcommand{\ptll} {\ensuremath{P_T(\ell\ell)}}
149 \begin{center}
150 $ K = \frac{\int_0^{\infty} {\cal N}(\ptll)~~d\ptll~}{\int_{50}^{\infty} {\cal N}(\ptll)~~d\ptll~} = 1.52$
151 \end{center}
152
153
154 %%%TO BE REPLACED
155 %Given the integrated luminosity of the
156 %present dataset, the determination of $K$ in data is severely statistics
157 %limited. Thus, we take $K$ from $t\bar{t}$ Monte Carlo as
158
159 %\begin{center}
160 %$ K_{MC} = \frac{\int_0^{\infty} {\cal N}(\met)~~d\met~}{\int_{50}^{\infty} {\cal N}(\met)~~d\met~}$
161 %\end{center}
162
163 %\noindent {\color{red} For the 11 pb result we have used $K$ from data.}
164
165 There are several effects that spoil the correspondance between \met and
166 $P_T(\ell\ell)$:
167 \begin{itemize}
168 \item $Ws$ in top events are polarized. Neutrinos are emitted preferentially
169 parallel to the $W$ velocity while charged leptons are emitted prefertially
170 anti-parallel. Thus the $P_T(\nu\nu)$ distribution is harder
171 than the $P_T(\ell\ell)$ distribution for top dilepton events.
172 \item The lepton selections results in $P_T$ and $\eta$ cuts on the individual
173 leptons that have no simple correspondance to the neutrino requirements.
174 \item Similarly, the \met$>$50 GeV cut introduces an asymmetry between leptons and
175 neutrinos which is only partially compensated by the $K$ factor above.
176 \item The \met resolution is much worse than the dilepton $P_T$ resolution.
177 When convoluted with a falling spectrum in the tails of \met, this results
178 in a harder spectrum for \met than the original $P_T(\nu\nu)$.
179 \item The \met response in CMS is not exactly 1. This causes a distortion
180 in the \met distribution that is not present in the $P_T(\ell\ell)$ distribution.
181 \item The $t\bar{t} \to$ dilepton signal includes contributions from
182 $W \to \tau \to \ell$. For these events the arguments about the equivalence
183 of $P_T(\ell\ell)$ and $P_T(\nu\nu)$ do not apply.
184 \item A dilepton selection will include SM events from non $t\bar{t}$
185 sources. These events can affect the background prediction. Particularly
186 dangerous are high $P_T$ Drell Yan events that barely pass the \met$>$ 50
187 GeV selection. They will tend to push the data-driven background prediction up.
188 Therefore we estimate the number of DY events entering the background prediction
189 using the $R_{out/in}$ method as described in Sec.~\ref{sec:othBG}.
190 \end{itemize}
191
192 We have studied these effects in SM Monte Carlo, using a mixture of generator and
193 reconstruction level studies, putting the various effects in one at a time.
194 For each configuration, we apply the data-driven method and report as figure
195 of merit the ratio of observed and predicted events in the signal region.
196 The results are summarized in Table~\ref{tab:victorybad}.
197
198 \begin{table}[htb]
199 \begin{center}
200 \caption{\label{tab:victorybad}
201 {\bf \color{red} Should we either update this with 38X MC or remove it?? }
202 Test of the data driven method in Monte Carlo
203 under different assumptions. See text for details.}
204 \begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
205 \hline
206 & True $t\bar{t}$ dilepton & $t\to W\to\tau$& other SM & GEN or & Lepton $P_T$ & Z veto & \met $>$ 50& obs/pred \\
207 & included & included & included & RECOSIM & and $\eta$ cuts & & & \\ \hline
208 1&Y & N & N & GEN & N & N & N & 1.90 \\
209 2&Y & N & N & GEN & Y & N & N & 1.64 \\
210 3&Y & N & N & GEN & Y & Y & N & 1.59 \\
211 4&Y & N & N & GEN & Y & Y & Y & 1.55 \\
212 5&Y & N & N & RECOSIM & Y & Y & Y & 1.51 \\
213 6&Y & Y & N & RECOSIM & Y & Y & Y & 1.58 \\
214 7&Y & Y & Y & RECOSIM & Y & Y & Y & 1.38 \\
215 \hline
216 \end{tabular}
217 \end{center}
218 \end{table}
219
220
221 \begin{table}[htb]
222 \begin{center}
223 \caption{\label{tab:victorysyst}
224 Summary of uncertainties in $K_C$ due to the MET scale and resolution uncertainty, and to backgrounds other than $t\bar{t} \to$~dilepton.
225 In the first table, `up' and `down' refer to shifting the hadronic energy scale up and down by 5\%. In the second table, the quoted value
226 refers to the amount of additional smearing of the MET, as discussed in the text. In the third table, the normalization of all backgrounds
227 other than $t\bar{t} \to$~dilepton is varied.
228 {\bf \color{red} Should I remove `observed' and `predicted' and show only the ratio? }}
229
230 \begin{tabular}{ lcccc }
231 \hline
232 MET scale & Predicted & Observed & Obs/pred \\
233 \hline
234 nominal & 0.92 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.29 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.40 $ \pm $ 0.20 \\
235 up & 0.92 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.53 $ \pm $ 0.12 & 1.66 $ \pm $ 0.23 \\
236 down & 0.81 $ \pm $ 0.07 & 1.08 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.32 $ \pm $ 0.17 \\
237 \hline
238 MET smearing & Predicted & Observed & Obs/pred \\
239 \hline
240 nominal & 0.92 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.29 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.40 $ \pm $ 0.20 \\
241 10\% & 0.90 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.30 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.44 $ \pm $ 0.21 \\
242 20\% & 0.84 $ \pm $ 0.07 & 1.36 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.61 $ \pm $ 0.19 \\
243 30\% & 1.05 $ \pm $ 0.18 & 1.32 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.27 $ \pm $ 0.24 \\
244 40\% & 0.85 $ \pm $ 0.07 & 1.37 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.61 $ \pm $ 0.19 \\
245 50\% & 1.08 $ \pm $ 0.18 & 1.36 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.26 $ \pm $ 0.24 \\
246 \hline
247 non-$t\bar{t} \to$~dilepton scale factor & Predicted & Observed & Obs/pred \\
248 \hline
249 ttdil only & 0.77 $ \pm $ 0.07 & 1.05 $ \pm $ 0.06 & 1.36 $ \pm $ 0.14 \\
250 nominal & 0.92 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.29 $ \pm $ 0.11 & 1.40 $ \pm $ 0.20 \\
251 double non-ttdil yield & 1.06 $ \pm $ 0.18 & 1.52 $ \pm $ 0.20 & 1.43 $ \pm $ 0.30 \\
252 \hline
253 \end{tabular}
254 \end{center}
255 \end{table}
256
257
258
259 The largest discrepancy between prediction and observation occurs on the first
260 line of Table~\ref{tab:victorybad}, {\em i.e.}, at the generator level with no
261 cuts. We have verified that this effect is due to the polarization of
262 the $W$ (we remove the polarization by reweighting the events and we get
263 good agreement between prediction and observation). The kinematical
264 requirements (lines 2,3,4) compensate somewhat for the effect of W polarization.
265 Going from GEN to RECOSIM, the change in observed/predicted is small.
266 % We have tracked this down to the fact that tcMET underestimates the true \met
267 % by $\approx 4\%$\footnote{We find that observed/predicted changes by roughly 0.1
268 %for each 1.5\% change in \met response.}.
269 Finally, contamination from non $t\bar{t}$
270 events can have a significant impact on the BG prediction.
271 %The changes between
272 %lines 6 and 7 of Table~\ref{tab:victorybad} is driven by 3
273 %Drell Yan events that pass the \met selection in Monte Carlo (thus the effect
274 %is statistically not well quantified).
275
276 An additional source of concern is that the CMS Madgraph $t\bar{t}$ MC does
277 not include effects of spin correlations between the two top quarks.
278 We have studied this effect at the generator level using Alpgen. We find
279 that the bias is at the few percent level.
280
281 Based on the results of Table~\ref{tab:victorysyst}, we conclude that the
282 naive data-driven background estimate based on $P_T{(\ell\ell)}$ needs to
283 be corrected by a factor of $ K_C = 1.4 \pm 0.2({\rm stat})$.
284
285 The dominant sources of systematic uncertainty in $K_C$ are due to non-$t\bar{t} \to$~dilepton backgrounds,
286 and the MET scale and resolution uncertainties, as summarized in Table~\ref{tab:victorysyst}.
287 The impact of non-$t\bar{t}$-dilepton background is assessed
288 by varying the yield of all backgrounds except for $t\bar{t} \to$~dilepton.
289 The uncertainty is assessed as the larger of the differences between the nominal $K_C$ value and the values
290 obtained using only $t\bar{t} \to$~dilepton MC and obtained by doubling the non $t\bar{t} \to$~dilepton component,
291 giving an uncertainty of $0.04$.
292
293 The uncertainty in $K_C$ due to the MET scale uncertainty is assessed by varying the hadronic energy scale using
294 the same method as in~\cite{ref:top}, giving an uncertainty of 0.3. We also assess the impact of the MET resolution
295 uncertainty on $K_C$ by applying a random smearing to the MET. For each event, we determine the expected MET resolution
296 based on the sumJetPt, and smear the MET to simulate an increase in the resolution of 10\%, 20\%, 30\%, 40\% and 50\%.
297 The results show that $K_C$ does not depend strongly on the MET resolution and we therefore do not assess any uncertainty.
298
299 Incorporating all the statistical and systematic uncertainties we find $K_C = 1.4 \pm 0.4$.
300
301 \subsection{Signal Contamination}
302 \label{sec:sigcont}
303
304 All data-driven methods are in principle subject to signal contaminations
305 in the control regions, and the methods described in
306 Sections~\ref{sec:abcd} and~\ref{sec:victory} are not exceptions.
307 Signal contamination tends to dilute the significance of a signal
308 present in the data by inflating the background prediction.
309
310 It is hard to quantify how important these effects are because we
311 do not know what signal may be hiding in the data. Having two
312 independent methods (in addition to Monte Carlo ``dead-reckoning'')
313 adds redundancy because signal contamination can have different effects
314 in the different control regions for the two methods.
315 For example, in the extreme case of a
316 new physics signal
317 with $P_T(\ell \ell) = \met$, an excess of events would be seen
318 in the ABCD method but not in the $P_T(\ell \ell)$ method.
319
320
321 The LM points are benchmarks for SUSY analyses at CMS. The effects
322 of signal contaminations for a couple such points are summarized
323 in Table~\ref{tab:sigcont}. Signal contamination is definitely an important
324 effect for these two LM points, but it does not totally hide the
325 presence of the signal.
326
327
328 \begin{table}[htb]
329 \begin{center}
330 \caption{\label{tab:sigcont} Effects of signal contamination
331 for the two data-driven background estimates. The three columns give
332 the expected yield in the signal region and the background estimates
333 using the ABCD and $P_T(\ell \ell)$ methods. Results are normalized to 35~pb$^{-1}$.}
334 \begin{tabular}{lccc}
335 \hline
336 & Yield & ABCD & $P_T(\ell \ell)$ \\
337 \hline
338 SM only & 1.29 & 1.25 & 0.92 \\
339 SM + LM0 & 7.57 & 4.44 & 1.96 \\
340 SM + LM1 & 3.85 & 1.60 & 1.43 \\
341 \hline
342 \end{tabular}
343 \end{center}
344 \end{table}
345