Measurement of the tt̄ production cross section in pp collisions at √s=7TeV in dilepton final states containing a τ
Measurement of the tt̄ production cross section in pp collisions at √s=7TeV in dilepton final states containing a τ
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2012-06-19
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Chatrchyan, S.
Khachatryan, V.
Sirunyan, A. M.
Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Bergauer, T.
Dragicevic, M.
Erö, J.
Fabjan, C.
Friedl, M.
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The top quark pair production cross section is measured in dilepton events with one electron or muon, and one hadronically decaying τ lepton from the decay tt̄→(ν)(τ hν τ)bb̄, (=e,μ). The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.0fb -1 for the electron channel and 2.2fb -1 for the muon channel, collected by the CMS detector at the LHC. This is the first measurement of the tt̄ cross section explicitly including τ leptons in proton-proton collisions at √s=7TeV. The measured value σ tt̄=143±14(stat)±22(syst)±3(lumi)pb is consistent with the standard model predictions. © 2012 CERN. Published by the American Physical Society.
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Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. v.85(11)