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. 2023 Jul 26;83(7):667. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11632-6

Table 13.

Contributions of different sources of uncertainty in the signal strength measurement. The systematic component includes the combined effect from all sources besides background normalization and the size of the dataset, which make up the statistical part

Uncertainty source Δμ/μ ΔμgH/μgH ΔμVBF/μVBF ΔμW/μW ΔμZ/μZ
Theory (signal) 4% 5% 13% 2% <1%
Theory (background) 3% 3% 2% 4% 5%
Lepton misidentification 2% 2% 9% 15% 4%
Integrated luminosity 2% 2% 2% 2% 3%
b tagging 2% 2% 3% <1% 2%
Lepton efficiency 3% 4% 2% 1% 4%
Jet energy scale 1% <1% 2% <1% 3%
Jet energy resolution <1% 1% <1% <1% 3%
pTmiss scale <1% 1% <1% 2% 2%
PDF 1% 2% <1% <1% 2%
Parton shower <1% 2% <1% 1% 1%
Backg. norm. 3% 4% 6% 4% 6%
Stat. uncertainty 5% 6% 28% 21% 31%
Syst. uncertainty 9% 10% 23% 19% 11%
Total uncertainty 10% 11% 36% 29% 33%