Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions using dilepton events

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作者
Abazov, V. M. [1 ]
Abbott, B.
Abolins, M.
Acharya, B. S.
Adams, M.
Adams, T.
Aguilo, E.
Ahn, S. H.
Ahsan, M.
Alexeev, G. D.
Alkhazov, G.
Alton, A.
Alverson, G.
Alves, G. A.
Anastasoaie, M.
Ancu, L. S.
Andeen, T.
Anderson, S.
Andrieu, B.
Anzelc, M. S.
Arnoud, Y.
Arov, M.
Arthaud, M.
Askew, A.
Asman, B.
Jesus, A. C. S. Assis
Atramentov, O.
Autermann, C.
Avila, C.
Ay, C.
Badaud, F.
Baden, A.
Bagby, L.
Baldin, B.
Bandurin, D. V.
Banerjee, S.
Banerjee, P.
Barberis, E.
Barfuss, A. -F.
Bargassa, P.
Baringer, P.
Barreto, J.
Bartlett, J. F.
Bassler, U.
Bauer, D.
Beale, S.
Bean, A.
Begalli, M.
Begel, M.
Belanger-Champagne, C.
机构
[1] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[2] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[3] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[4] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[5] Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[6] Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC, Canada
[7] York Univ, Toronto, ON, Canada
[8] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[9] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei, Peoples R China
[10] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[11] Charles Univ Prague, Ctr Particle Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[12] Czech Tech Univ, Prague, Czech Republic
[13] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, Ctr Particle Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[14] Univ San Francisco Quito, Quito, Ecuador
[15] Univ Blaise Pascal, IN2P3 CNRS, Phys Corpusculaire Lab, Clermont Ferrand, France
[16] Univ Grenoble 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Phys Subatom & Cosmol Lab, Grenoble, France
[17] Univ Mediterranee, CNRS, IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
[18] CNRS, IN2P3, Accelerateur Lineaire Lab, Orsay, France
[19] Univ Paris Sud, Orsay, France
[20] Univ Paris 06, IN2P3, CNRS, LPNHE, Paris, France
[21] Univ Paris 07, Paris, France
[22] CEA, DAPNIA, Serv Phys Particules, Saclay, France
[23] Univ Louis Pasteur Strasbourg 1, IPHC, Strasbourg, France
[24] Univ Haute Alsace, CNRS, IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
[25] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IPNL, IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
[26] Univ Lyon, Lyon, France
[27] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys A 3, Aachen, Germany
[28] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, Bonn, Germany
[29] Univ Freiburg, Inst Phys, Freiburg, Germany
[30] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, Mainz, Germany
[31] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
[32] Univ Gesamthsch Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys, Wuppertal, Germany
[33] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh, India
[34] Univ Delhi, Delhi, India
[35] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Mumbai, India
[36] Natl Univ Ireland Univ Coll Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
[37] Korea Univ, Korea Detector Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[38] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Chem, Suwon, South Korea
[39] CINVESTAV, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
[40] NIKHEF H, FOM Inst, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[41] Univ Amsterdam, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[42] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, NIKHEF, Nijmegen, Netherlands
[43] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[44] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow, Russia
[45] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[46] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[47] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, Russia
[48] Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden
[49] Royal Inst Technol, Stockholm, Sweden
[50] Univ Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2007年 / 76卷 / 05期
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.052006
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a measurement of the t (t) over bar pair production cross section in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV utilizing approximately 425 pb(-1) of data collected with the D0 detector. We consider decay channels containing two high p(T) charged leptons (either e or mu) from leptonic decays of both top-daughter W bosons. These were gathered using four sets of selection criteria, three of which required that a pair of fully identified leptons (i.e., e mu, ee, or mu mu) be found. The fourth approach imposed less restrictive criteria on one of the lepton candidates and required that at least one hadronic jet in each event be tagged as containing a b quark. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV, the measured cross section is 7.4 +/- 1.4(stat)+/- 1.0(syst) pb and for the current Tevatron average top quark mass of 170.9 GeV, the resulting value of the cross section is 7.8 +/- 1.8(stat+syst) pb.
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