Determination of the top-quark pole mass and strong coupling constant from the tt production cross section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
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The inclusive cross section for top-quark pair production measured by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is compared to the QCD prediction at next-to-next-to-leading order with various parton distribution functions to determine the top-quark pole mass, m t pole , or the strong coupling constant, S . With the parton distribution function set NNPDF2.3, a pole mass of 176. 7 +3.8 -3.4 GeV is obtained when constraining S at the scale of the Z boson mass, m Z , to the current world average. Alternatively, by constraining m t pole to the latest average from direct mass measurements, a value of S (m Z ) = 0. 1151 +0.0033 -0.0032 is extracted. This is the first determination of S using events from top-quark production. 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.