First measurement of the cross section for top-quark pair production in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol.695, no.5, pp.424-443, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 695 Issue: 5
- Publication Date: 2011
- Doi Number: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.11.058
- Journal Name: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.424-443
- Keywords: CMS, Cross section, LHC, Physics, Top quark
- Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No
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-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. © 2010 CERN.