Measurement of Double-Differential Cross Sections for Top Quark Pair Production in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV and Impact on Parton Distribution Functions
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Abercrombie, Daniel Robert; Allen, Brandon Leigh; Apyan, Aram; Azzolini, Virginia; Barbieri, Richard Alexander; Baty, Austin Alan; Bi, Ran; Bierwagen, Katharina; Brandt, Stephanie Akemi; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria; Demiragli, Zeynep; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hsu, Dylan George; Iiyama, Yutaro; Innocenti, Gian Michele; Klute, Markus; Kovalskyi, Dmytro; Krajczar, Krisztian F.; Lai, Yue Shi; Lee, Yen-Jie; Levin, Andrew Michael; Luckey Jr, P David; Maier, Benedikt; Marini, Andrea Carlo; McGinn, Christopher Francis; Mironov, Camelia Maria; Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan; Niu, Xinmei; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Roland, Christof E; Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry; Stephans, George S. F.; Tatar, Kaya; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wang, J.; Wang, Ta-Wei; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; ... Show more Show less
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Normalized double-differential cross sections for top quark pair (t[bar over t]) production are measured in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript -1]. The measurement is performed in the dilepton e[superscript ±]μ[superscript ∓] final state. The t[bar over t] cross section is determined as a function of various pairs of observables characterizing the kinematics of the top quark and t[bar over t] system. The data are compared to calculations using perturbative quantum chromodynamics at next-to-leading and approximate next-to-next-to-leading orders. They are also compared to predictions of Monte Carlo event generators that complement fixed-order computations with parton showers, hadronization, and multiple-parton interactions. Overall agreement is observed with the predictions, which is improved when the latest global sets of proton parton distribution functions are used. The inclusion of the measured tt¯ cross sections in a fit of parametrized parton distribution functions is shown to have significant impact on the gluon distribution.
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2017-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
The European Physical Journal C
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Springer/Società Italiana di Fisica
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CMS Collaboration, et al. “Measurement of Double-Differential Cross Sections for Top Quark Pair Production in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV and Impact on Parton Distribution Functions.” The European Physical Journal C, vol. 77, no. 7, July 2017. © 2017 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration
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1434-6044
1434-6052