Abstract
After commissioning of the Large Hadron Collider at the European nuclear research centre CERN, the CMS detector had recorded data with an integrated luminosity of 1.1 fb{sup -1} at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV already in Summer 2011. With this, it was possible for the first time to accurately measure properties of the top quark with high statistics. The work presented here focuses on the measurement of normalised differential top quark pair production cross sections in the decay channel into final states with two oppositely charged leptons. The measurement is presented in dependence of kinematic properties of the top quarks, the top quark pair, the leptons, and the lepton pair. The distributions allow for detailed testing of perturbative quantum chromodynamics and thus the Standard Model of particle physics. Many of the distributions are also sensitive to processes beyond the Standard Model. In this work, comparisons of the measured cross sections with three different predictions are shown. The result is that the predictions are in accordance with the measurement, only a slight deviation of the prediction from the measurement is visible in few distributions. In the outlook it is shown that a fourth, more accurately calculated prediction for the measurement
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Behrenhoff, Wolf.
Measurement of differential tt cross sections in the dilepton decay channels with the CMS detector at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy.
Germany: N. p.,
2012.
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Behrenhoff, Wolf.
Measurement of differential tt cross sections in the dilepton decay channels with the CMS detector at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy.
Germany.
Behrenhoff, Wolf.
2012.
"Measurement of differential tt cross sections in the dilepton decay channels with the CMS detector at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy."
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title = {Measurement of differential tt cross sections in the dilepton decay channels with the CMS detector at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy}
author = {Behrenhoff, Wolf}
abstractNote = {After commissioning of the Large Hadron Collider at the European nuclear research centre CERN, the CMS detector had recorded data with an integrated luminosity of 1.1 fb{sup -1} at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV already in Summer 2011. With this, it was possible for the first time to accurately measure properties of the top quark with high statistics. The work presented here focuses on the measurement of normalised differential top quark pair production cross sections in the decay channel into final states with two oppositely charged leptons. The measurement is presented in dependence of kinematic properties of the top quarks, the top quark pair, the leptons, and the lepton pair. The distributions allow for detailed testing of perturbative quantum chromodynamics and thus the Standard Model of particle physics. Many of the distributions are also sensitive to processes beyond the Standard Model. In this work, comparisons of the measured cross sections with three different predictions are shown. The result is that the predictions are in accordance with the measurement, only a slight deviation of the prediction from the measurement is visible in few distributions. In the outlook it is shown that a fourth, more accurately calculated prediction for the measurement of the top quark transverse momentum normalised differential cross section is in even better agreement with the data. Thus it can be concluded that the Standard Model was tested successfully and that no hints for new physics are found.}
place = {Germany}
year = {2012}
month = {Sep}
}
title = {Measurement of differential tt cross sections in the dilepton decay channels with the CMS detector at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy}
author = {Behrenhoff, Wolf}
abstractNote = {After commissioning of the Large Hadron Collider at the European nuclear research centre CERN, the CMS detector had recorded data with an integrated luminosity of 1.1 fb{sup -1} at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV already in Summer 2011. With this, it was possible for the first time to accurately measure properties of the top quark with high statistics. The work presented here focuses on the measurement of normalised differential top quark pair production cross sections in the decay channel into final states with two oppositely charged leptons. The measurement is presented in dependence of kinematic properties of the top quarks, the top quark pair, the leptons, and the lepton pair. The distributions allow for detailed testing of perturbative quantum chromodynamics and thus the Standard Model of particle physics. Many of the distributions are also sensitive to processes beyond the Standard Model. In this work, comparisons of the measured cross sections with three different predictions are shown. The result is that the predictions are in accordance with the measurement, only a slight deviation of the prediction from the measurement is visible in few distributions. In the outlook it is shown that a fourth, more accurately calculated prediction for the measurement of the top quark transverse momentum normalised differential cross section is in even better agreement with the data. Thus it can be concluded that the Standard Model was tested successfully and that no hints for new physics are found.}
place = {Germany}
year = {2012}
month = {Sep}
}