Measurement of the single-top-quark t-channel cross section in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV
A measurement of the single-top-quark t-channel production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC is presented. Two different and complementary approaches have been followed. The first approach exploits the distributions of the pseudorapidity of the recoil jet and reconstructed top-quark mass using background estimates determined from control samples in data. The second approach is based on multivariate analysis techniques that probe the compatibility of the candidate events with the signal. Data have been collected for the muon and electron final states, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1.17 and 1.56 inverse femtobarns, respectively. The single-top-quark production cross section in the t-channel is measured to be 67.2 +/- 6.1 pb, in agreement with the approximate next-to-next-to-leading-order standard model prediction. Using the standard model electroweak couplings, the CKM matrix element abs(V[tb]]) is measured to be 1.020 +/- 0.046 (meas.) +/- 0.017 (theor.).
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- The CMS collaboration
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1406513
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-12-758-CMS; CMS-TOP-11-021; CERN-PH-EP-2012-274; arXiv:1209.4533; 1186734
- Journal Information:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2012, Issue 12; ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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