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T1 - Measurement of the t t production cross-section in p p collisions using dilepton events}.
AU - Abazov, V. M.
AU - Bertram, Iain
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Ratoff, Peter
AU - Sopczak, Andre
PY - 2007/9/28
Y1 - 2007/9/28
N2 - We present a measurement of the t[overline t] pair production cross section in p[overline p] collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV utilizing approximately 425 pb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector. We consider decay channels containing two high pT charged leptons (either e or µ) from leptonic decays of both top-daughter W bosons. These were gathered using four sets of selection criteria, three of which required that a pair of fully identified leptons (i.e., eµ, ee, or µµ) be found. The fourth approach imposed less restrictive criteria on one of the lepton candidates and required that at least one hadronic jet in each event be tagged as containing a b quark. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV, the measured cross section is 7.4±1.4(stat)±1.0(syst) pb and for the current Tevatron average top quark mass of 170.9 GeV, the resulting value of the cross section is 7.8±1.8(stat+syst) pb.
AB - We present a measurement of the t[overline t] pair production cross section in p[overline p] collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV utilizing approximately 425 pb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector. We consider decay channels containing two high pT charged leptons (either e or µ) from leptonic decays of both top-daughter W bosons. These were gathered using four sets of selection criteria, three of which required that a pair of fully identified leptons (i.e., eµ, ee, or µµ) be found. The fourth approach imposed less restrictive criteria on one of the lepton candidates and required that at least one hadronic jet in each event be tagged as containing a b quark. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV, the measured cross section is 7.4±1.4(stat)±1.0(syst) pb and for the current Tevatron average top quark mass of 170.9 GeV, the resulting value of the cross section is 7.8±1.8(stat+syst) pb.
KW - elementary particle jets
KW - high-energy elementary particle interactions
KW - intermediate boson decay
KW - leptonic decays
KW - proton-proton inclusive interactions
KW - quark mass
KW - quark production
KW - W bosons
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.052006
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.052006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 76
SP - 052006
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
SN - 1550-7998
ER -