Since the initial data taking of the CERN LHC, the CMS experiment has undergone substantial upgrades and improvements. This paper discusses the CMS detector as it is configured for the third data-taking period of the CERN LHC, Run 3, which started in 2022. The entire silicon pixel tracking detector was replaced. A new powering system for the superconducting solenoid was installed. The electronics of the hadron calorimeter was upgraded. All the muon electronic systems were upgraded, and new muon detector stations were added, including a gas electron multiplier detector. The precision proton spectrometer was upgraded. The dedicated luminosity detectors and the beam loss monitor were refurbished. Substantial improvements to the trigger, data acquisition, software, and computing systems were also implemented, including a new hybrid CPU/GPU farm for the high-level trigger.

This paper describes the Combine software package used for statistical analyses by the CMS Collaboration. The package, originally designed to perform searches for a Higgs boson and the combined analysis of those searches, has evolved to become the statistical analysis tool presently used in the majority of measurements and searches performed by the CMS Collaboration. It is not specific to the CMS experiment, and this paper is intended to serve as a reference for users outside of the CMS Collaboration, providing an outline of the most salient features and capabilities. Readers are provided with the possibility to run Combine and reproduce examples provided in this paper using a publicly available container image. Since the package is constantly evolving to meet the demands of ever-increasing data sets and analysis sophistication, this paper cannot cover all details of Combine. However, the online documentation referenced within this paper provides an up-to-date and complete user guide.

The first observation of the $t\overline{t}H$ process in a single Higgs boson decay channel with the full reconstruction of the final state ($H\to \gamma \gamma$) is presented, with a significance of 6.6 standard deviations ($\sigma$). The $CP$ structure of Higgs boson couplings to fermions is measured, resulting in an exclusion of the pure $CP$-odd structure of the top Yukawa coupling at $3.2\sigma$. The measurements are based on a sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=13\mathrm{TeV}$ collected by the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $137{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$. The cross section times branching fraction of the $t\overline{t}H$ process is measured to be ${\sigma }_{t\overline{t}H}{\mathcal{B}}_{\gamma \gamma }={1.56}_{-0.32}^{+0.34}\mathrm{fb}$, which is compatible with the standard model prediction of ${1.13}_{-0.11}^{+0.08}\mathrm{fb}$. The fractional contribution of the $CP$-odd component is measured to be $f_{CP}^{Htt}=0.00\pm 0.33$.