Abstract

The cross section for pair production of top quarks (t-tbar) with high transverse momenta is measured in pp collisions, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC with sqrt(s) = 8 TeV in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns. The measurement is performed using lepton+jets events, where one top quark decays semileptonically, while the second top quark decays to a hadronic final state. The hadronic decay is reconstructed as a single, large-radius jet, and identified as a top quark candidate using jet substructure techniques. The integrated cross section and the differential cross sections as a function of top quark pt and rapidity are measured at particle level within a fiducial region related to the detector-level requirements and at parton level. The particle-level integrated cross section is found to be sigma[t-tbar] = 0.499 +/- 0.035 (stat+syst) +/- 0.095 (theory) +/- 0.013 (lumi) pb for top quark pt > 400 GeV. The parton-level measurement is sigma[t-tbar] = 1.44 +/- 0.10 (stat+syst) +/- 0.29 (theory) +/- 0.04 (lumi) pb. The integrated and differential cross section results are compared to predictions from several event generators.

Highlights

  • Measurements of top quark pair production cross sections provide crucial information for testing the standard model (SM) and the accuracy of predictions fromMonte Carlo (MC) generators

  • The CMS [1] and ATLAS [2] Collaborations at the CERN LHC have pprffiseffiv1⁄4iou7slayndm8eaTseuVreads the differential tt cross a function of transverse sections at momentum and other kinematic properties of the top quarks and the overall tt events [3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

  • These measurements use events where each parton from the top quark decay is associated with a distinct jet

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INTRODUCTION

Measurements of top quark pair (tt) production cross sections provide crucial information for testing the standard model (SM) and the accuracy of predictions from. The CMS [1] and ATLAS [2] Collaborations at the CERN LHC have pprffiseffiv1⁄4iou7slayndm8eaTseuVreads the differential tt cross a function of transverse sections at momentum (pT) and other kinematic properties of the top quarks and the overall tt events [3,4,5,6,7,8,9] These measurements use events where each parton from the top quark decay is associated with a distinct jet. Differential tt cross sections are measured at the particle (parton) level as a function of the t-tagged jet (top quark) pT and y after subtracting the background contributions and correcting for inefficiencies and bin migrations. The contribution to the jet energy in data from pileup is removed using the area-based subtraction technique outlined in Ref. [32], augmented by corrections from data as a function of the jet η, as described in Ref. [31]

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BACKGROUND
SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES
CROSS SECTION MEASUREMENTS
Maximum-likelihood fit
Integrated tt cross section measurement
Differential ttcross section measurements
Background normalization
Findings
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