Measurement of the Top-antitop Production Cross Section in Pp Collisions at Sqrt(s)
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Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1066549647 |
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Download or read book Measurement of the Top-antitop Production Cross Section in Pp Collisions at Sqrt(s) written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A measurement of the top-antitop production cross section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been performed at the LHC with the CMS detector. The analysis uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 inverse picobarns and is based on the reconstruction of the final state with one isolated, high transverse-momentum electron or muon and three or more hadronic jets. The kinematic properties of the events are used to separate the top-antitop signal from W+jets and QCD multijet background events. The measured cross section is 173 + 39 - 32 (stat. + syst.) pb, consistent with standard model expectations.