Abstract
The first observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions is reported using proton-lead data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of sNN=8.16 TeV. The measurement is performed using events with exactly one isolated electron or muon candidate and at least four jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 174 nb-1. The significance of the tt signal against the background-only hypothesis is above 5 standard deviations. The measured cross section is σtt=45±8 nb, consistent with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 242001 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue number | 24 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Dec 2017 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT, and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR and RAEP (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI, CPAN, PCTI and FEDER (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). State Fund for Fundamental Researches
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| CNRS/IN2P3 | |
| CPAN | |
| ERC IUT | |
| LNS | |
| MESTD | |
| MON | |
| MSES | |
| MSHE | |
| MoER | |
| PCTI | |
| RAEP | |
| STAR | |
| Swiss Funding Agencies | |
| TUBITAK | |
| ThEPCenter | |
| UASLP-FAI | |
| National Science Foundation | 1606321, 1151640, 1506168, 1506130, 1404281, 1508869 |
| National Institutes of Health | |
| U.S. Department of Energy | |
| Hispanics in Philanthropy | |
| CS Fund | |
| Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS) | |
| California Earthquake Authority | |
| Secretaría de Educación Pública | |
| Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu | |
| Louisiana Academy of Sciences | |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology | |
| CERN | |
| College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | |
| Norwegian Sequencing Centre | |
| Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology | |
| Mountain Equipment Co-operative | |
| Science and Technology Facilities Council | PP/E000479/1, GRIDPP, ST/H000925/1 |
| Royal Astronomical Society | |
| Ministry of Education - Singapore | |
| Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India | |
| Science Foundation Ireland | |
| Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft | |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
| Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo | |
| National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
| Research Promotion Foundation | |
| Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
| Russian Foundation for Basic Research | |
| Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior | |
| Academy of Finland | |
| Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung | |
| Austrian Science Fund | |
| Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS | |
| Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | |
| Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología | |
| Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft | |
| General Secretariat for Research and Technology | |
| Hungarian Scientific Research Fund | |
| Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | |
| Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning | |
| Ministry of Science and Technology | |
| National Research Foundation of Korea | |
| Joint Institute for Nuclear Research | |
| Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | |
| National Science and Technology Development Agency | Thailand |
| Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación | |
| Universiti Malaya | |
| Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | |
| Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment | |
| National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
| Ministry of Education and Science | |
| Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences | |
| Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla | |
| Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación | |
| European Regional Development Fund | |
| State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM | |
| Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional | |
| Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission | |
| State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine | |
| Department of Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal |