Measurement of the integrated and differential t̅t production cross sections for high-pt top quarks in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.072002

Measurement of the integrated and differential t̅t production cross sections for high-p_t top quarks in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV

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Abstract

The cross section for pair production of top quarks (tt) with high transverse momenta is measured in pp collisions, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC with s=8 TeV in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1. The measurement is performed using lepton+jets events, where one top quark decays semileptonically, while the second top quark decays to a hadronic final state. The hadronic decay is reconstructed as a single, large-radius jet, and identified as a top quark candidate using jet substructure techniques. The integrated cross section and the differential cross sections as a function of top quark pT and rapidity are measured at particle level within a fiducial region related to the detector-level requirements and at parton level. The particle-level integrated cross section is found to be σtt=0.499±0.035(stat+syst)±0.095(theo)±0.013(lumi) pb for top quark pT>400 GeV. The parton-level measurement is σtt=1.44±0.10(stat+syst)±0.29(theo)±0.04(lumi) pb. The integrated and differential cross section results are compared to predictions from several event generators.

Original language	English
Article number	072002
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	94
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.072002
Publication status	Published - 12 Oct 2016

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© 2016 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration.

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Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation	1606321, 1151640, 1506168, 1401223, 1314131, 1506130, 1120138, 1211067, 1508869
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/N000250/1, ST/K003542/1, ST/K001256/1, ST/J004871/1, GRIDPP, PP/E002803/1, ST/N001273/1, ST/H000925/2, ST/H000925/1, ST/J005479/1, ST/K001531/1, ST/I000305/1, PP/E000479/1, ST/M004775/1, ST/K001639/1, ST/L005603/1, ST/M002020/1, ST/I003622/1, ST/N000242/1

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