Questions: - L52: Isn't the MADGRAPH5_AMC@NLO a NLO generator? - L183: They cut on equal online and offline HT. Are there no turn-on effects? - L197: Why is the CRW not used for the BDT analysis? Type A: #Abstract: - Either give numbers for the cut-based method or write that the BDT is better. # Section 1: - L19: top can also decay into d and s quarks - L20: W bosons can have b decay products - L21: Jets can also come from tau # Section 2: - L52: LO = leading order - L64: Please describe alpha - L71: I don't get the argument with the narrow-width approximation. Also, maybe put a reference. - Section 2: Are there no more corrections? e.g. Pileup reweighting? # Section 6: - The section has also minor descriptions of statistic uncertainties and theoretical uncertainties, maybe a better heading is just 'Uncertainties' - L274-276: There are corrections, they should go in section 2 - L280/284/285: this was mentioned in section 2 already - L320: You use the fact that the uncertainties are small as a reason for treating these as uncorrelated? Is this justified? # Section 7: - L341: What about statistic uncertainties? # Section 8: - L369: Write EFT instead of BSM, like in the reference, abstract and summary when refering to \hut{H} - Figure 4: The predicted standard model cross section has only one value for the cross section and only one value for y_t which is y_t = y_t^SM right? Type B: #Title: -write center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. In the CMS Guidlines for Authors they write: 'Do not use undefined symbols like \ptmiss but rather write out "missing transverse momentum"' If you want to write sqrt(s) in the title, you can define sqrt(s) in line 3 of the Abstract # Section 4: - L148: missing comma: write '... both, electrons and muons, ...' otherwise it has a different meaning # Section 5: - L230: missing comma: write '... for both, electrons and muons - L232/233: not consistent 'loose lepton selection ... tight selection ...' eighter leave out lepton in the first case or put in in the second - L244: unnecessary phrase'rather than added' # section 7: - L344/346: better write 'scaled by a factor of 1.1 ...' - L344-348: absolute factors and factors in %. this is not consistent # Section 8: - L388: in L387 you write 'central, upper, and lower values' therefore write '< 1.7, 1.4, and 2.0, respectively'