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8.6. Summary of <strong>the</strong> Different Contributions 103<br />

8.6 Summary of <strong>the</strong> Dierent Contributions<br />

Some nal remarks concerning <strong>the</strong> dominant contributions to <strong>the</strong> systematic uncertainty<br />

should be made.<br />

As most event classes are very dierent <strong>from</strong> each o<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> systematic error varies much<br />

<strong>from</strong> one class to ano<strong>the</strong>r. In <strong>the</strong> case of <strong>the</strong> multiplicative factors, <strong>the</strong> magnitudes are<br />

easy to estimate, e.g <strong>for</strong> a single muon class : MC-correction-factor σ rel ≈ 3%, MC cross<br />

sectionuncertainty σ rel ≈ 3.5%as W-productiondomiantesanderroronQCD-background<br />

σ rel ≈ 40%.<br />

The o<strong>the</strong>r two systematic uncertainties (energy scale and smearing) are more dicult<br />

to gure as <strong>the</strong>y shift <strong>the</strong> whole distribution. Again, <strong>the</strong> dominate contribution strongly<br />

dependson<strong>the</strong>speciceventclass: Inaclasswithjets,<strong>the</strong>smearingerrorscanbeneglected<br />

with respect to <strong>the</strong> Jet Energy Scale uncertainty; in a MET distribution with electrons,<br />

<strong>the</strong> MET-smearing will be <strong>the</strong> dominant error, next to <strong>the</strong> scale factor uncertainties.<br />

To conclude, <strong>the</strong> systematic uncertainties are dierent <strong>for</strong> every event class and <strong>for</strong> every<br />

Region of Interest. In <strong>the</strong> event classes with huge statistics, 1l(+X) and 1l 1j(+X), all<br />

systematic errors combined are 10%. In <strong>the</strong> exotic classes and <strong>the</strong> high-p T tails of <strong>the</strong><br />

distributions, <strong>the</strong>y can also reach values of ≈ 50%, due to <strong>the</strong> fact that here smearing and<br />

energy scale uncertainty redistribute <strong>the</strong> bin entries (e.g. unsmeared bin entry: N MC = 4,<br />

smeared bin entry: N MC = 2).

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