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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2006-12-26Author
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.
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American Physical Society
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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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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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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