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First measurement of the cross section for top-quark pair production in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

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Alver, B.; Bauer, Gerry P.; Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Dutta, V.; Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Harris, P.; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Lee, Y.-J.; Li, W.; Loizides, C.; Lopez, Jeremy Paul; Luckey, P. David, Jr.; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Roland, Christof E.; Roland, Gunther M.; Rudolph, Matthew Scott; Stephans, George S. F.; Sumorok, Konstanty C.; Sung, Kevin Kai Hong; Wenger, Edward Allen; Xie, S.; Yang, M.; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
The first measurement of the cross section for top-quark pair production in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at center-of-mass energy √s = 7 TeV has been performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.1±0.3 pb[superscript −1] recorded by the CMS detector. This result utilizes the final state with two isolated, highly energetic charged leptons, large missing transverse energy, and two or more jets. Backgrounds from Drell–Yan and non-W/Z boson production are estimated from data. Eleven events are observed in the data with 2.1±1.0 events expected from background. The measured cross section is 194±72(stat.)±24(syst.)±21(lumi.) pb, consistent with next-to-leading order predictions.
Date issued
2010-12
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92570
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
Journal
Physics Letters B
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
Khachatryan, V., A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, J. Erö, et al. “First Measurement of the Cross Section for Top-Quark Pair Production in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 7 TeV.” Physics Letters B 695, no. 5 (January 2011): 424–443. © 2010 CERN
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03702693

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