WZ production cross section in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV

CDS Link: [http://cms.cern.ch/cds/SMP-24-005](http://cms.cern.ch/cds/SMP-24-005)

Dear Colleagues,

Here is the institutional review from the CMU team. We found the paper very clear and well written, congratulations! We only a few minor and comments/suggestions.

john

Type B

l151 says that you require exactly three isolated leptons. However in l156 says "In case two or more OSSF lepton pairs" How can you have more than 2 OSSF if you veto 3 leptons ?

Fig3 suggest to make these plots with same scale on x-axis (Was initially confused why the electron resolution seems so much worse, but think that it is mainly b/c the scale is different)

Table 2, why does the ISR uncertainty only affect the WZ. Should this also apply to the other backgrounds taken from MC ?

Table 3: what cross section is assumed for the WZ here ?