par Khachatryan, Vardan;Clerbaux, Barbara ;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Gay, Arnaud ;Hreus, Tomas ;Marage, Pierre ;Thomas, Laurent ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Charaf, Othman ;Dero, Vincent ;Hammad, Grégory ;Wickens, John H. ; [et al.]
Référence Physics letters. Section B, 695, 5, page (424-443)
Publication Publié, 2011
Référence Physics letters. Section B, 695, 5, page (424-443)
Publication Publié, 2011
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | The first measurement of the cross section for top-quark pair production in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at center-of-mass energy s=7 TeV has been performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.1±0.3 pb-1 recorded by the CMS detector. This result utilizes the final state with two isolated, highly energetic charged leptons, large missing transverse energy, and two or more jets. Backgrounds from Drell-Yan and non-W/Z boson production are estimated from data. Eleven events are observed in the data with 2.1±1.0 events expected from background. The measured cross section is 194±72(stat.)±24(syst.)±21(lumi.) pb, consistent with next-to-leading order predictions. |