Measurement of the tt̅ production cross section in 2  fb-1 of pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96  TeV using lepton plus jets events with soft muon b tagging


Autoria(s): Aaltonen, Timo; Mehtälä, Petteri; Orava, Risto; Mäki, Tuula; Saarikko, Heimo; Österberg, Kenneth; CDF collaboration
Contribuinte(s)

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Physics

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) (-2009)

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

Data(s)

2009

Resumo

We present a measurement of the tt̅ production cross section in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96  TeV using events containing a high transverse momentum electron or muon, three or more jets, and missing transverse energy. Events consistent with tt̅ decay are found by identifying jets containing candidate heavy-flavor semileptonic decays to muons. The measurement uses a CDF run II data sample corresponding to 2  fb-1 of integrated luminosity. Based on 248 candidate events with three or more jets and an expected background of 79.5±5.3 events, we measure a production cross section of 9.1±1.6  pb.

We present a measurement of the $\ttbar$ production cross section in $\ppbar$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV using events containing a high transverse momentum electron or muon, three or more jets, and missing transverse energy. Events consistent with $\ttbar$ decay are found by identifying jets containing candidate heavy-flavor semileptonic decays to muons. The measurement uses a CDF Run II data sample corresponding to $2 \mathrm{fb^{-1}}$ of integrated luminosity. Based on 248 candidate events with three or more jets and an expected background of $79.5\pm5.3$ events, we measure a production cross section of $9.1\pm 1.6 \mathrm{pb}$.

Formato

25

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10138/24458

1550-7998

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

American Physical Society

Relação

Physical Review D : Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

http://prd.aps.org/pdf/PRD/v79/i5/e052007

Fonte

Aaltonen , T , Mehtälä , P , Orava , R , Mäki , T , Saarikko , H , Österberg , K & CDF collaboration 2009 , ' Measurement of the tt̅ production cross section in 2  fb-1 of pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96  TeV using lepton plus jets events with soft muon b tagging ' , Physical Review D : Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology , vol 79 , no. 5 , pp. 052007 .

Palavras-Chave #114 Physical sciences #hep-ex
Tipo

A1 Refereed journal article

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