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Systematic Uncertainties

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This section describes the systematic uncertainty in this analysis. The sources of systematic uncertainties are considered: the physics objects and simulation modelling.

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Yamaguchi, D. (2019). Systematic Uncertainties. In: Search for New Phenomena in Top-Antitop Quarks Final States with Additional Heavy-Flavour Jets with the ATLAS Detector. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0932-2_8

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