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This chapter presents the measurement of the associated production of a \(\mathrm {W} ^\pm \) boson and a charm quark in 13 TeV pp-collisions, using the data collected by the CMS collaboration in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.7\(\,\text {fb}^{-1}\). It is the main subject of this thesis, together with the interpretation of the results in terms of the proton structure, presented in Chap. 6.
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Pflitsch, S.K. (2020). Measurement of the Associated Production of W + Charm in \(\sqrt{s} = 13\) TeV Proton–Proton Collisions. In: Associated Production of W + Charm in 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions Measured with CMS and Determination of the Strange Quark Content of the Proton. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52762-4_5
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