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Measurement of the t-tbar production cross section in the e-mu channel in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV

dc.contributor.authorCMS collaboration (2302 authors)
dc.contributor.authorCalpas, Betty
dc.contributor.authorNayak, Aruna
dc.contributor.authorBargassa, Pedrame
dc.contributor.authorBeirão Da Cruz E Silva, Cristóvão
dc.contributor.authorDi Francesco, Agostino
dc.contributor.authorFaccioli, Pietro
dc.contributor.authorFerreira Parracho, Pedro Guilherme
dc.contributor.authorGallinaro, Michele
dc.contributor.authorHollar, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorLeonardo, Nuno
dc.contributor.authorLloret Iglesias, Lara
dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Federico
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues Antunes, Joao
dc.contributor.authorSeixas, Joao
dc.contributor.authorToldaiev, Oleksii
dc.contributor.authorVadruccio, Daniele
dc.contributor.authorVarela, Joao
dc.contributor.authorVischia, Pietro
dc.contributor.authorDavid Tinoco Mendes, Andre
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorMusella, Pasquale
dc.contributor.authorPela, Joao
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-04T09:28:19Z
dc.date.available2019-02-04T09:28:19Z
dc.date.issued2016-08-03
dc.date.updated2019-02-04T09:28:19Z
dc.description.abstractThe inclusive cross section for top quark pair production is measured in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ and 8 TeV, corresponding to 5.0 and 19.7 fb$^{−1}$, respectively, with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The cross sections are measured in the electron-muon channel using a binned likelihood fit to multi-differential final state distributions related to identified b quark jets and other jets in the event. The measured cross section values are 173.6 ± 2.1(stat)$_{− 4.0}^{+ 4.5}$ (syst) ± 3.8(lumi)pb at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ TeV, and 244.9 ± 1.4(stat)$_{− 5.5}^{+ 6.3}$ (syst) ± 6.4(lumi)pb at $ \sqrt{s}=8 $ TeV, in good agreement with QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading-order accuracy. The ratio of the cross sections measured at 7 and 8 TeV is determined, as well as cross sections in the fiducial regions defined by the acceptance requirements on the two charged leptons in the final state. The cross section results are used to determine the top quark pole mass via the dependence of the theoretically predicted cross section on the mass, giving a best result of 173. 8$_{− 1.8}^{+ 1.7}$ GeV. The data at $ \sqrt{s}=8 $ TeV are also used to set limits, for two neutralino mass values, on the pair production of supersymmetric partners of the top quark with masses close to the top quark mass.
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewed
dc.identifierJHEP 1608 (2016) 029; DOI 10.1007/JHEP08(2016)029
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)029
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27044
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleMeasurement of the t-tbar production cross section in the e-mu channel in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt
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