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. 2017 Aug 9;77(8):531. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5061-9

Table 5.

Significant contributions to the total relative uncertainty in the measured value of Rt. The estimation of the systematic uncertainties has a statistical uncertainty of 0.3%. Uncertainties contributing less than 0.5% are not shown

Source ΔRt/Rt (%)
Data statistics ±3.0
Monte Carlo statistics ±1.8
Background modelling ±0.7
Jet reconstruction ±0.5
ETmiss modelling ±0.6
tq (t¯q) NLO matching ±0.5
tq (t¯q) scale variations ±0.7
tt¯ NLO matching ±2.3
tt¯ parton shower ±1.7
PDF ±0.7
Total systematic ±3.9
Total (stat. + syst.) ±5.0