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Measurement of the tt̄ production cross section in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV using the kinematic properties of events with leptons and jets

The CMS Collaboration ; Sharif University of Technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1721-3
  3. Abstract:
  4. A measurement of the tt̄ 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 pb-1 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 tt̄ 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
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  6. Source: European Physical Journal C ; Volume 71, Issue 9 , 2011 , Pages 1-27 ; 14346044 (ISSN)
  7. URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-011-1721-3