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Paper   IPM / Particles / 12096
School of Particles and Accelerator
  Title:   Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at 7 TeV in Lepton + Jets Events Using b-quark Jet Identification
  Author(s): 
1.  Hessamadin Arfaei
2.  Hamed Bakhshiansohi
3.  Seyed Mohsen Etesami
4.  Ali Fahim
5.  Majid Hashemi
6.  Hoda Hesari
7.  Abideh Jafari
8.  Mohsen Khakzad
9.  A Mohammadi
10.  Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi
11.  Saeid Paktinat
12.  Batool Safarzadeh
13.  Maryam Zeinali
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Phys. Rev. D
  No.:  092004
  Vol.:  84
  Year:  2011
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
A new measurement of the inclusive production cross section for pp - tt is performed at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analysis uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb-1 , and is based on the final state with one isolated, high transverse momentum muon or electron, missing transverse energy, and hadronic jets. The tt content of the selected events is enhanced by requiring the presence of at least one jet consistent with b-quark hadronization. The measured cross section is 150 +- 9(stat.)+-17 (syst.)+-6 (lumi.) pb and is in agreement with higher-order QCD calculations. The combination of this measurement with a previous CMS result based on dileptons gives 154 +- 17 (stat. + syst.)+-6 (lumi.) pb

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