Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions at √s=1.96 TeV using lepton plus jets events with jet probability b-tagging

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Abulencia, A. [1 ]
Acosta, D.
Adelman, J.
Affolder, T.
Akimoto, T.
Albrow, M. G.
Ambrose, D.
Amerio, S.
Amidei, D.
Anastassov, A.
Anikeev, K.
Annovi, A.
Antos, J.
Aoki, M.
Apollinari, G.
Arguin, J.-F.
Arisawa, T.
Artikov, A.
Ashmanskas, W.
Attal, A.
Azfar, F.
Azzi-Bacchetta, P.
Azzurri, P.
Bacchetta, N.
Bachacou, H.
Badgett, W.
Barbaro-Galtieri, A.
Barnes, V. E.
Barnett, B. A.
Baroiant, S.
Bartsch, V.
Bauer, G.
Bedeschi, F.
Behari, S.
Belforte, S.
Bellettini, G.
Bellinger, J.
Belloni, A.
Ben Haim, E.
Benjamin, D.
Beretvas, A.
Beringer, J.
Berry, T.
Bhatti, A.
Binkley, M.
Bisello, D.
Blair, R. E.
Blocker, C.
Blumenfeld, B.
Boccio, A.
机构
[1] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[2] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
[3] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[4] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Fis Altes Energies, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
[5] Baylor Univ, Waco, TX 76798 USA
[6] Univ Bologna, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[7] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[8] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[9] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[10] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[11] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[12] Univ Cantabria, CSIC, Inst Fis Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain
[13] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[14] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[15] Joint Inst Nucl Res, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia
[16] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[17] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[18] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[20] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[21] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[22] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[23] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Div High Energy Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[24] Helsinki Inst Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[25] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[26] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[27] High Energy Accelerator Res Org, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[28] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[29] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[30] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[31] Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[32] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England
[33] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[34] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[35] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[36] McGill Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[37] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[38] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[39] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[40] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[41] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[42] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[43] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[44] Okayama Univ, Okayama 7008530, Japan
[45] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 588, Japan
[46] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[47] Univ Padua, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova Trento, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[48] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR7585, IN2P3,LPNHE, F-75252 Paris, France
[49] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[50] Univ Pisa, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2006年 / 74卷 / 07期
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.072006
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 production cross section using events with one charged lepton and jets from p (p) over bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. A b-tagging algorithm based on the probability of displaced tracks coming from the event interaction vertex is applied to identify b quarks from top decay. Using 318 pb(-1) of data collected with the CDF II detector, we measure the t (t) over bar production cross section in events with at least one restrictive (tight) b-tagged jet and obtain 8.9(-1.0)(+1.0)(stat)(-1.0)(+1.1)(syst) pb. The cross section value assumes a top quark mass of m(t)=178 GeV/c(2) in the acceptance corrections. The dependence of the cross section on m(t) is presented in the paper. This result is consistent with other CDF measurements of the t (t) over bar cross section using different samples and analysis techniques, and has similar systematic uncertainties. We have also performed consistency checks by using the b-tagging probability function to vary the signal-to-background ratio and also using events that have at least two b-tagged jets.
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