Measurement of associated production of vector bosons and top quark-antiquark pairs in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV
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Apyan, Aram; Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Dutta, Valentina; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Krajczar, Krisztian F.; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Rudolph, Matthew Scott; Stephans, George S. F.; Sung, Kevin Kai Hong; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wenger, Edward Allen; Wolf, Roger; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, Mingming; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Bauer, Gerry P; Wyslouch, Victoria; Levin, Andrew Michael; Luckey Jr, P David; Ma, Teng; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Stoeckli, Fabian; Sumorok, Konstanty C; ... Show more Show less
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The first measurement of vector-boson production associated with a top quark-antiquark pair in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV is presented. The results are based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb-1, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC in 2011. The measurement is performed in two independent channels through a trilepton analysis of tt̅ Z events and a same-sign dilepton analysis of tt̅ V (V=W or Z) events. In the trilepton channel a direct measurement of the tt̅ Z cross section σtt̅ Z=0.28[subscript -0.11][superscript +0.14] (stat)[subscript -0.03][superscript +0.06] (syst) pb is obtained. In the dilepton channel a measurement of the tt̅ V cross section yields σtt̅ V=0.43[subscript -0.15][superscript +0.17] (stat)[subscript -0.07][superscript +0.09] (syst) pb. These measurements have a significance, respectively, of 3.3 and 3.0 standard deviations from the background hypotheses and are compatible, within uncertainties, with the corresponding next-to-leading order predictions of 0.137[subscript -0.016][superscript +0.012] and 0.306[subscript -0.053][superscript +0.031] pb.
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2013-04Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A. M. Sirunyan, et al. 2013 Measurement of Associated Production of Vector Bosons and Top Quark-antiquark Pairs in Pp Collisions at Sqrt[s]=7 TeV. Physical Review Letters 110(17).
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0031-9007
1079-7114