Measurement of the single-top-quark t-channel cross section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
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CMS Collaboration
Apyan, Aram
Bauer, Gerry P
Bendavid, Joshua L.
Busza, Wit
Butz, Erik M.
Cali, Ivan Amos
Dutta, Valentina
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Date Issued
December 2012
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Nature
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Chatrchyan, S. et al. “Measurement of the single-top-quark t-channel cross section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2012, 12 (December 2012): 35 © 2012 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration
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Abstract
A measurement of the single-top-quark t-channel production cross section in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC is presented. Two different and complementary approaches have been followed. The first approach exploits the distributions of the pseudorapidity of the recoil jet and reconstructed top-quark mass using background estimates determined from control samples in data. The second approach is based on multivariate analysis techniques that probe the compatibility of the candidate events with the signal. Data have been collected for the muon and electron final states, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1.17 and 1.56 fb[superscript -1], respectively. The single-top-quark production cross section in the t-channel is measured to be 67.2±6.1 pb, in agreement with the approximate next-to-next-to-leading- order standard model prediction. Using the standard model electroweak couplings, the CKM matrix element |V tb | is measured to be 1.020 ± 0.046 (meas.) ± 0.017 (theor.).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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