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    Measurement of the tt-bar production cross section in pp-bar collisions at s√=1.96  TeV using secondary vertex b tagging

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    2006-12-26
    Author
    Baringer, Philip S.
    Bean, Alice
    Coppage, Don
    Gardner, J.
    Moulik, Tania
    Wilson, Graham Wallace
    Abazov, V. M.
    Abbott, B.
    Abolins, M.
    Acharya, B. S.
    Adams, M.
    Publisher
    American Physical Society
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    Article
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    Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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    Abstract
    We report a new measurement of the tt-bar production cross section in pp-bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using events with one charged lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse energy, and jets. Using 425  pb(−1) of data collected using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, and enhancing the tt-bar content of the sample by tagging b jets with a secondary vertex tagging algorithm, the tt-bar production cross section is measured to be σpp-bar→tt-bar+X=6.6±0.9(stat+syst)±0.4(lum)  pb. This cross section is the most precise D0 measurement to date for tt-bar production and is in good agreement with standard model expectations.
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    This the the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.112004.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15385
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.112004
    ISSN
    1550-7998
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    V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2006). "Measurement of the tt-bar production cross section in pp-bar collisions at s√=1.96  TeV using secondary vertex b tagging." Physical Review D, 74(11)112004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.112004

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