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Contents<br />

4 The Data Sample and Object Identication 35<br />

4.1 The Data Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

4.2 The Set of Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />

4.3 Object Identication and Selection Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />

4.3.1 Electron Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

4.3.2 Photon Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />

4.3.3 Muon Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />

4.3.4 Jet Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46<br />

4.3.5 Missing Transverse Energy (MET) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />

5 Monte Carlo Samples 51<br />

5.1 MC Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />

5.2 SM-Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />

5.3 Energy Scale and Smearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56<br />

6 Global Data-Monte Carlo Comparison 61<br />

6.1 MC-Correction-Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

6.1.1 χ 2 -Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

6.1.2 Systematic Uncertainty of <strong>the</strong> MC-Correction-Factor . . . . . . . . . 64<br />

6.2 QCD-background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

6.3 Comparison of <strong>the</strong> Total Number of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />

6.3.1 Muon Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

6.3.2 Electron Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

7 <strong>Search</strong> Algorithm 89<br />

7.1 Region of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />

7.2 General Signicance of <strong>the</strong> Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br />

7.2.1 Denition of <strong>the</strong> Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br />

7.2.2 The Principle of Dicing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />

8 Systematic Uncertainties 97<br />

8.1 MC-Correction-Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br />

8.2 MC Cross Section Uncertainty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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