Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV using events with large missing transverse energy and jets Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In this paper we report a measurement of the tt production cross section in pp collisions at s=1.96TeV using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2fb-1 collected with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron accelerator. We select events with significant missing transverse energy and high jet multiplicity. This measurement vetoes the presence of explicitly identified electrons and muons, thus enhancing the tau contribution of tt decays. Signal events are discriminated from the background using a neural network, and heavy flavor jets are identified by a secondary-vertex tagging algorithm. We measure a tt production cross section of 7.990.55(stat)0.76(syst)0.46(lumi) pb, assuming a top mass mtop=172.5GeV/c2, in agreement with previous measurements and standard model predictions. 2011 American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW D

altmetric score

  • 7.504

author list (cited authors)

  • Aaltonen, T., Alvarez Gonzalez, B., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., ... Zucchelli, S.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Aaltonen, T||Alvarez Gonzalez, B||Amerio, S||Amidei, D||Anastassov, A||Annovi, A||Antos, J||Apollinari, G||Appel, JA||Apresyan, A||Arisawa, T||Artikov, A||Asaadi, J||Ashmanskas, W||Auerbach, B||Aurisano, A||Azfar, F||Badgett, W||Barbaro-Galtieri, A||Barnes, VE||Barnett, BA||Barria, P||Bartos, P||Bauce, M||Bauer, G||Bedeschi, F||Beecher, D||Behari, S||Bellettini, G||Bellinger, J||Benjamin, D||Beretvas, A||Bhatti, A||Binkley, M||Bisello, D||Bizjak, I||Bland, KR||Blumenfeld, B||Bocci, A||Bodek, A||Bortoletto, D||Boudreau, J||Boveia, A||Brau, B||Brigliadori, L||Brisuda, A||Bromberg, C||Brucken, E||Bucciantonio, M||Budagov, J||Budd, HS||Budd, S||Burkett, K||Busetto, G||Bussey, P||Buzatu, A||Calancha, C||Camarda, S||Campanelli, M||Campbell, M||Canelli, F||Canepa, A||Carls, B||Carlsmith, D||Carosi, R||Carrillo, S||Carron, S||Casal, B||Casarsa, M||Castro, A||Catastini, P||Cauz, D||Cavaliere, V||Cavalli-Sforza, M||Cerri, A||Cerrito, L||Chen, YC||Chertok, M||Chiarelli, G||Chlachidze, G||Chlebana, F||Cho, K||Chokheli, D||Chou, JP||Chung, WH||Chung, YS||Ciobanu, CI||Ciocci, MA||Clark, A||Compostella, G||Convery, ME||Conway, J||Corbo, M||Cordelli, M||Cox, CA||Cox, DJ||Crescioli, F||Almenar, C Cuenca||Cuevas, J||Culbertson, R||Dagenhart, D||d'Ascenzo, N||Datta, M||de Barbaro, P||De Cecco, S||De Lorenzo, G||Dell'Orso, M||Deluca, C||Demortier, L||Deng, J||Deninno, M||Devoto, F||d'Errico, M||Di Canto, A||Di Ruzza, B||Dittmann, JR||D'Onofrio, M||Donati, S||Dong, P||Dorigo, M||Dorigo, T||Ebina, K||Elagin, A||Eppig, A||Erbacher, R||Errede, D||Errede, S||Ershaidat, N||Eusebi, R||Fang, HC||Farrington, S||Feindt, M||Fernandez, JP||Ferrazza, C||Field, R||Flanagan, G||Forrest, R||Frank, MJ||Franklin, M||Freeman, JC||Funakoshi, Y||Furic, I||Gallinaro, M||Galyardt, J||Garcia, JE||Garfinkel, AF||Garosi, P||Gerberich, H||Gerchtein, E||Giagu, S||Giakoumopoulou, V||Giannetti, P||Gibson, K||Ginsburg, CM||Giokaris, N||Giromini, P||Giunta, M||Giurgiu, G||Glagolev, V||Glenzinski, D||Gold, M||Goldin, D||Goldschmidt, N||Golossanov, A||Gomez, G||Gomez-Ceballos, G||Goncharov, M||Gonzalez, O||Gorelov, I||Goshaw, AT||Goulianos, K||Gresele, A||Grinstein, S||Grosso-Pilcher, C||Group, RC||da Costa, J Guimaraes||Gunay-Unalan, Z||Haber, C||Hahn, SR||Halkiadakis, E||Hamaguchi, A||Han, JY||Happacher, F||Hara, K||Hare, D||Hare, M||Harr, RF||Hatakeyama, K||Hays, C||Heck, M||Heinrich, J||Herndon, M||Hewamanage, S||Hidas, D||Hocker, A||Hopkins, W||Horn, D||Hou, S||Hughes, RE||Hurwitz, M||Husemann, U||Hussain, N||Hussein, M||Huston, J||Introzzi, G||Iori, M||Ivanov, A||James, E||Jang, D||Jayatilaka, B||Jeon, EJ||Jha, MK||Jindariani, S||Johnson, W||Jones, M||Joo, KK||Jun, SY||Junk, TR||Kamon, T||Karchin, PE||Kato, Y||Ketchum, W||Keung, J||Khotilovich, V||Kilminster, B||Kim, DH||Kim, HS||Kim, HW||Kim, JE||Kim, MJ||Kim, SB||Kim, SH||Kim, YK||Kimura, N||Kirby, M||Klimenko, S||Kondo, K||Kong, DJ||Konigsberg, J||Kotwal, AV||Kreps, M||Kroll, J||Krop, D||Krumnack, N||Kruse, M||Krutelyov, V||Kuhr, T||Kurata, M||Kwang, S||Laasanen, AT||Lami, S||Lammel, S||Lancaster, M||Lander, RL||Lannon, K||Lath, A||Latino, G||Lazzizzera, I||LeCompte, T||Lee, E||Lee, HS||Lee, JS||Lee, SW||Leo, S||Leone, S||Lewis, JD||Lin, C-J||Linacre, J||Lindgren, M||Lipeles, E||Lister, A||Litvintsev, DO||Liu, C||Liu, Q||Liu, T||Lockwitz, S||Lockyer, NS||Loginov, A||Lucchesi, D||Lueck, J||Lujan, P||Lukens, P||Lungu, G||Lys, J||Lysak, R||Madrak, R||Maeshima, K||Makhoul, K||Maksimovic, P||Malik, S||Manca, G||Manousakis-Katsikakis, A||Margaroli, F||Marino, C||Martinez, M||Martinez-Ballarin, R||Mastrandrea, P||Mathis, M||Mattson, ME||Mazzanti, P||McFarland, KS||McIntyre, P||McNulty, R||Mehta, A||Mehtala, P||Menzione, A||Mesropian, C||Miao, T||Mietlicki, D||Mitra, A||Miyake, H||Moed, S||Moggi, N||Mondragon, MN||Moon, CS||Moore, R||Morello, MJ||Morlock, J||Fernandez, P Movilla||Mukherjee, A||Muller, Th||Murat, P||Mussini, M||Nachtman, J||Nagai, Y||Naganoma, J||Nakano, I||Napier, A||Nett, J||Neu, C||Neubauer, MS||Nielsen, J||Nodulman, L||Norniella, O||Nurse, E||Oakes, L||Oh, SH||Oh, YD||Oksuzian, I||Okusawa, T||Orava, R||Ortolan, L||Griso, S Pagan||Pagliarone, C||Palencia, E||Papadimitriou, V||Paramonov, AA||Patrick, J||Pauletta, G||Paulini, M||Paus, C||Pellett, DE||Penzo, A||Phillips, TJ||Piacentino, G||Pianori, E||Pilot, J||Pitts, K||Plager, C||Pondrom, L||Potamianos, K||Poukhov, O||Prokoshin, F||Pronko, A||Ptohos, F||Pueschel, E||Punzi, G||Pursley, J||Rahaman, A||Ramakrishnan, V||Ranjan, N||Redondo, I||Renton, P||Rescigno, M||Rimondi, F||Ristori, L||Robson, A||Rodrigo, T||Rodriguez, T||Rogers, E||Rolli, S||Roser, R||Rossi, M||Rubbo, F||Ruffini, F||Ruiz, A||Russ, J||Rusu, V||Safonov, A||Sakumoto, WK||Sakurai, Y||Santi, L||Sartori, L||Sato, K||Saveliev, V||Savoy-Navarro, A||Schlabach, P||Schmidt, A||Schmidt, EE||Schmidt, MP||Schmitt, M||Schwarz, T||Scodellaro, L||Scribano, A||Scuri, F||Sedov, A||Seidel, S||Seiya, Y||Semenov, A||Sforza, F||Sfyrla, A||Shalhout, SZ||Shears, T||Shepard, PF||Shimojima, M||Shiraishi, S||Shochet, M||Shreyber, I||Simonenko, A||Sinervo, P||Sissakian, A||Sliwa, K||Smith, JR||Snider, FD||Soha, A||Somalwar, S||Sorin, V||Squillacioti, P||Stancari, M||Stanitzki, M||St Denis, R||Stelzer, B||Stelzer-Chilton, O||Stentz, D||Strologas, J||Strycker, GL||Sudo, Y||Sukhanov, A||Suslov, I||Takemasa, K||Takeuchi, Y||Tang, J||Tecchio, M||Teng, PK||Thom, J||Thome, J||Thompson, GA||Thomson, E||Ttito-Guzman, P||Tkaczyk, S||Toback, D||Tokar, S||Tollefson, K||Tomura, T||Tonelli, D||Torre, S||Torretta, D||Totaro, P||Trovato, M||Tu, Y||Ukegawa, F||Uozumi, S||Varganov, A||Vazquez, F||Velev, G||Vellidis, C||Vidal, M||Vila, I||Vilar, R||Vogel, M||Volpi, G||Wagner, P||Wagner, RL||Wakisaka, T||Wallny, R||Wang, SM||Warburton, A||Waters, D||Weinberger, M||Wester, WCIII||Whitehouse, B||Whiteson, D||Wicklund, AB||Wicklund, E||Wilbur, S||Wick, F||Williams, HH||Wilson, JS||Wilson, P||Winer, BL||Wittich, P||Wolbers, S||Wolfe, H||Wright, T||Wu, X||Wu, Z||Yamamoto, K||Yamaoka, J||Yang, T||Yang, UK||Yang, YC||Yao, W-M||Yeh, GP||Yi, K||Yoh, J||Yorita, K||Yoshida, T||Yu, GB||Yu, I||Yu, SS||Yun, JC||Zanetti, A||Zeng, Y||Zucchelli, S

publication date

  • August 2011