Publication
Title
Measurement of the $t\overline{t}$ production cross section in $p\overline{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CDF Collaboration
Abstract
 We present a measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96  TeV using 318  pb-1 of data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We select tt̅ decays into the final states eν+jets and μν+jets, in which at least one b quark from the t-quark decays is identified using a secondary vertex-finding algorithm. Assuming a top quark mass of 178  GeV/c2, we measure a cross section of 8.7±0.9(stat)-0.9+1.1(syst)  pb. We also report the first observation of tt̅ with significance greater than 5σ in the subsample in which both b quarks are identified, corresponding to a cross section of 10.1-1.4+1.6(stat)-1.3+2.0(syst)  pb.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physical review letters. - New York, N.Y.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : 2006
ISSN
0031-9007
Volume/pages
97:8(2006), p. 082004,1-082004,7
ISI
000240043800015
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