Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV with tagged protons
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Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Andrejkovic, J. W.
Bergauer, T.
Chatterjee, S.
Damanakis, K.
Dragicevic, M.
Escalante Del Valle, A.
Hussain, P. S.
Jeitler, M.
Date Issued
June 27, 2024
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
The CMS collaboration., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W. et al. Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV with tagged protons. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 187 (2024).
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Abstract
A search for the central exclusive production of top quark-antiquark pairs (tt⎯⎯
) is performed for the first time using proton-tagged events in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 29.4 fb−1. The tt⎯⎯
decay products are reconstructed using the central CMS detector, while forward protons are measured in the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer. An observed (expected) upper bound on the production cross section of 0.59 (1.14) pb is set at 95% confidence level, for collisions of protons with fractional momentum losses between 2 and 20%.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2024)187
