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Measurement of ttbar production in the tau + jets topology using ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

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Measurement of ttbar production in the tau + jets topology using ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV. / Collaboration, D0; Bertram, Iain; Borissov, Guennadi et al.
In: Physical Review D, Vol. 82, No. 7, 071102(R), 27.10.2010.

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Collaboration D, Bertram I, Borissov G, Fox H, Williams M, Ratoff P et al. Measurement of ttbar production in the tau + jets topology using ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV. Physical Review D. 2010 Oct 27;82(7):071102(R). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.071102

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title = "Measurement of ttbar production in the tau + jets topology using ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV",
abstract = "We present a measurement of the ttbar production cross section multiplied by the branching ratio to tau lepton decaying semihadronically plus jets, at a center of mass energy sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV using 1 fb^(-1) of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector. Assuming a top quark mass of 170 GeV, we measure sigma_ttb * BR=0.60^{+0.23}_{-0.22} (stat) ^{+0.15}_{-0.14} (syst) +/- 0.04\;(lumi) pb. In addition, we extract the ttbar production cross section using the ttbar->tau+jets topology, with the result sigma_ttbar = 6.9_{-1.2}^{+1.2} (stat)_{-0.7}^{+0.8} (syst) \pm 0.4 (lumi) pb. These findings are in good agreement with standard model predictions and measurements performed using other top quark decay channels.",
author = "D0 Collaboration and Iain Bertram and Guennadi Borissov and Harald Fox and Mark Williams and Peter Ratoff and Peter Love and Andre Sopczak",
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T1 - Measurement of ttbar production in the tau + jets topology using ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

AU - Collaboration, D0

AU - Bertram, Iain

AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Williams, Mark

AU - Ratoff, Peter

AU - Love, Peter

AU - Sopczak, Andre

N1 - © 2010 The American Physical Society 7 pages, 2 figures, Published Phys. Rev. D

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N2 - We present a measurement of the ttbar production cross section multiplied by the branching ratio to tau lepton decaying semihadronically plus jets, at a center of mass energy sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV using 1 fb^(-1) of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector. Assuming a top quark mass of 170 GeV, we measure sigma_ttb * BR=0.60^{+0.23}_{-0.22} (stat) ^{+0.15}_{-0.14} (syst) +/- 0.04\;(lumi) pb. In addition, we extract the ttbar production cross section using the ttbar->tau+jets topology, with the result sigma_ttbar = 6.9_{-1.2}^{+1.2} (stat)_{-0.7}^{+0.8} (syst) \pm 0.4 (lumi) pb. These findings are in good agreement with standard model predictions and measurements performed using other top quark decay channels.

AB - We present a measurement of the ttbar production cross section multiplied by the branching ratio to tau lepton decaying semihadronically plus jets, at a center of mass energy sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV using 1 fb^(-1) of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector. Assuming a top quark mass of 170 GeV, we measure sigma_ttb * BR=0.60^{+0.23}_{-0.22} (stat) ^{+0.15}_{-0.14} (syst) +/- 0.04\;(lumi) pb. In addition, we extract the ttbar production cross section using the ttbar->tau+jets topology, with the result sigma_ttbar = 6.9_{-1.2}^{+1.2} (stat)_{-0.7}^{+0.8} (syst) \pm 0.4 (lumi) pb. These findings are in good agreement with standard model predictions and measurements performed using other top quark decay channels.

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