Title: | Measurement of the tt-bar production cross section in pp collisions at 7 TeV in lepton + jets events using b-quark jet identification |
Authors: | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Ero, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Fruhwirth, R Schilling, F-P Cousins, R Holzner, A Jindal, M Gauthier, L Santanastasio, F Ribeiro, PQ Chadwick, M Kolberg, T Cheung, HWK Padula, SS Sellers, P Gerwig, H Weinberger, M Maeshima, K Vaughan, J Merkel, P Gigi, D Costa, M Semenov, S Codispoti, G Dierlamm, A Kesisoglou, S Musich, M Hauser, J Assran, Y Wilken, R Merz, J Perera, L Bakken, JA Danielson, T Lelas, K Lin, W Gomber, B Massironi, A Tonwar, SC Gottschalk, E Ferencek, D Rizzi, A Langenegger, U Maes, M Iorio, AOM Rebassoo, F Kousouris, K Bontenackels, M Pagano, D Raymond, DM Wickramage, N Francis, B Munoz Sanchez, FJ Wang, D De Favereau De Jeneret, J Pape, L Hsiung, Y Twedt, E Grassi, M Odorici, F Primavera, F Eshaq, Y Sirois, Y Kaschube, K Cassel, D Barnett, BA Mikulec, I Casimiro Linares, E Pugliese, G Gilbert, A Muniz, L Fiori, F Flacher, H Shmatov, S Garcia-Bellido, A Rander, J Eusebi, R Sanabria, JC Mekterovic, D Gallinaro, M Chung, YS Goldenzweig, P Behrens, U Goerlach, U Apresyan, A Caebergs, T Gataullin, M Krolikowski, J Teodorescu, L Costa, S Dietz-Laursonn, E Schleper, P Rohlf, J Shivpuri, RK Landsberg, G Jeng, GY Zeyrek, M Vidal, R Schöfbeck, R Zaganidis, N Pioppi, M Penzo, A Borrello, L Maurisset, A Polese, G Chatterjee, A Geralis, T Kangal, EE Chang, YH Gomez-Reino Garrido, R Buchmuller, O Hu, Z Salur, S Freeman, J Petrilli, A Appelt, E Reid, ID Pol, ME Uzunian, A Gaddi, A Gribushin, A Luthra, A Serban, AT Geffert, P Klute, M Plestina, R Blumenfeld, B Ghete, VM Tali, B Yang, F Hatherell, Z Albrow, M Sultanov, G Gruschke, J Van Hove, P Hoehle, F Khalil, S Singovsky, A Chiorboli, M De Boer, W Teo, WD Ujvari, B Karmgard, DJ Yoo, HD Ata, M Klima, B Charlot, C Musenich, R Mahmoud, MA Bodin, D Olzem, J Cortina Gil, E Gallo, E Valdata, M Organtini, G Meyer, AB Diemoz, M Hays, J Joshi, U Kinnunen, R Messineo, A Tzeng, YM Shin, K Bakirci, MN Kuo, CM Ille, B Cihangir, S Belforte, S Naumann-Emme, S Sammet, J Nachtman, J Nauenberg, U Guo, Y Harper, S Mondal, NK Hammad, GH Fantasia, C Ershov, A Gotra, Y Bhattacharya, S Baty, C Oehler, A Palencia Cortezon, E Grishin, V Sulak, L Shrestha, S Rosowsky, A Han, J Trentadue, R Lobelle Pardo, P Markowitz, P Tao, J Stein, M Sillou, D Ball, G Kargoll, B Harel, A Kayis Topaksu, A Erhan, S Weber, H Osorio Oliveros, AF Radburn-Smith, BC Pitzl, D Fano, L Lychkovskaya, N Moon, DH Mannelli, M Everett, A Skhirtladze, N Brown, RM Furic, IK Ntomari, E Incandela, J Reece, W Grandi, C Martelli, A Rovere, M Del Re, D Graziano, A Litov, L Cooper, SI Ahmed, I Singh, AP Kaya, O Gupta, R Vesztergombi, G Tosi, S Colino, N Weber, M Zoeller, MH Meng, X Kumar, A Evangelou, I Gele, D Deliomeroglu, M Volobouev, I Baesso, P Sturdy, J Cox, B Ferguson, W Strom, D Nahn, S Hartl, C Perfilov, M Bardak, C Bernardini, J Park, SK Razis, PA Chen, Y Grogg, KS Schieferdecker, P Snoek, H Iles, G Campbell, A Burkett, K Sperka, D Camanzi, B Aranyi, A 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Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 84(9): 092004, Nov 2011 |
Abstract: | A new measurement of the inclusive production cross section for pp to t t-bar is performed at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analysis uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 inverse picobarns, and is based on the final state with one isolated, high transverse momentum muon or electron, missing transverse energy, and hadronic jets. The ttbar content of the selected events is enhanced by requiring the presence of at least one jet consistent with b-quark hadronization. The measured cross section is 150 +/- 9 (stat.) +/- 17 syst.) +/- 6 (lumi.) pb and is in agreement with higher-order QCD calculations. The combination of this measurement with a previous CMS result based on dileptons gives 154 +/- 17 (stat.+syst.) +/- 6 (lumi.) pb. |
Description: | This is the Pre-Print version of the Article - Copyright @ 2011 APS |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6201 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.092004 |
ISSN: | 1550-7998 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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