Title: | Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions |
Authors: | Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Ambrogi, F Asilar, E Bergauer, T Brandstetter, J Brondolin, E Dragicevic, M Erö, J Escalante Del Valle, A Flechl, M Friedl, M Frühwirth, R Ghete, VM Grossmann, J Hrubec, J Jeitler, M König, A Krammer, N Krätschmer, I Liko, D Madlener, T Mikulec, I Pree, E Rad, N Rohringer, H Schieck, J Schöfbeck, R Spanring, M Spitzbart, D Waltenberger, W Wittmann, J Wulz, CE Zarucki, M Chekhovsky, V Mossolov, V Suarez Gonzalez, J De Wolf, EA Di Croce, D Janssen, X Lauwers, J Van De Klundert, M Van Haevermaet, H Van Mechelen, P Van Remortel, N Abu Zeid, S Blekman, F D'Hondt, J De Bruyn, I De Clercq, J Deroover, K Flouris, G Lontkovskyi, D Lowette, S Marchesini, I Moortgat, S Moreels, L Python, Q Skovpen, K Tavernier, S Van Doninck, W Van Mulders, P Van Parijs, I Beghin, D Bilin, B Brun, H Clerbaux, B De Lentdecker, G Delannoy, H Dorney, B Fasanella, G Favart, L Goldouzian, R Grebenyuk, A Kalsi, AK Lenzi, T Luetic, J Maerschalk, T Marinov, A Seva, T Starling, E Vander Velde, C Vanlaer, P Vannerom, D Yonamine, R Zenoni, F Cornelis, T Dobur, D Fagot, A Gul, M Khvastunov, I Poyraz, D Roskas, C Salva, S |
Issue Date: | 21-Sep-2017 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters, 2017, 119 (24) |
Abstract: | The first observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions is reported using proton-lead data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of sNN=8.16 TeV. The measurement is performed using events with exactly one isolated electron or muon candidate and at least four jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 174 nb-1. The significance of the tt signal against the background-only hypothesis is above 5 standard deviations. The measured cross section is σtt=45±8 nb, consistent with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17630 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001 1079-7114 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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