Autores
Luna García Rene
Título Measurement of the tt̄ production cross section and top quark mass extraction using dilepton events in pp̄ collisions
Tipo Revista
Sub-tipo JCR
Descripción Physics letters B
Resumen We present a measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV using approximately 1 fb−1 collected with the DØ detector. We consider decay channels containing two high pT charged leptons where one lepton is identified as an electron or a muon while the other lepton can be an electron, a muon or a hadronically decaying τ lepton. For a mass of the top quark of 170 GeV, the measured cross section is 7.5−1.0+1.0(stat) −0.6+0.7(syst) −0.5+0.6(lumi) pb. Using ℓτ events only, we measure: σtt̄ × B(tt̄→ℓτbb̄)=0.13−0.08+0.09(stat) −0.06+0.06(syst) −0.02+0.02(lumi) pb. Comparing the measured cross section as a function of the mass of the top quark with a partial next-to-next-to leading order Quantum Chromodynamics theoretical prediction, we extract a mass of the top quark of 171.5 −8.8+9.9 GeV, in agreement with direct measurements.
Observaciones DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.07.032
Lugar
País Paises Bajos
No. de páginas 177-185
Vol. / Cap. Vol 679, Issue 3
Inicio 2009-08-24
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