Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in the tau plus jets channel in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, vol.73, no.4, 2013 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 73 Issue: 4
- Publication Date: 2013
- Doi Number: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2386-x
- Journal Name: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
The top-quark pair production cross section in 7 TeV center-of-mass energy proton-proton collisions is measured using data collected by the CMS detector at the LHC. The measurement uses events with one jet identified as a hadronically decaying tau lepton and at least four additional energetic jets, at least one of which is identified as coming from a b quark. The analyzed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.9 fb(-1) recorded by a dedicated multijet plus hadronically decaying tau trigger. A neural network has been developed to separate the top-quark pairs from the W + jets and multijet backgrounds. The measured value of sigma(t (t) over bar) = 152 +/- 12 (stat.) +/- 32 (syst.) +/- 3 (lum.) pb is consistent with the standard model predictions.