Implementation of the CMS-TOP-18-003 analysis in the MadAnalysis 5 framework (four top quarks with at least two leptons; 137 fb$^{−1}$)

Abstract : We present the implementation in MadAnalysis 5 of the CMS-TOP-18-003 search for the production of four top quarks in the Standard Model and detail the validation of this implementation. This CMS analysis studies Standard Model four-top production through the same-sign and multi-lepton plus jets channels, using a luminosity of 137 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. We validate our implementation work by studying various distributions and event counts describing the properties of the signal in the context of the Standard Model: jet and b-jet multiplicities, the hadronic activity HT, and the number of expected events populating the various analysis signal regions. We then provide a small example of usage of this implementation to constrain a toy new physics model.