Measurement of the tt-bar cross section in pp-bar collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV using dilepton events with a lepton plus track selection

Citation CDF Collaboration et al. " Measurement of the tt-bar cross section in pp-bar collisions at s=1.96 TeV using dilepton events with a lepton plus track selection. Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Measurement of the t t cross section in p p collisions at ffiffi ffi s p ¼ 1:96 TeV using dilepton events with a lepton plus track selection MEASUREMENT OF THE t " t CROSS SECTION IN. .. This paper reports a measurement of the cross section for the pair production of top quarks in p " p collisions at ffiffi ffi s p ¼ 1:96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. The data were collected from the CDF run II detector in a set of runs with a total integrated luminosity of 1:1 fb À1. The cross section is measured in the dilepton channel, the subset of t " t events in which both top quarks decay through t ! Wb ! 'b, where ' ¼ e, , or. The lepton pair is reconstructed as one identified electron or muon and one isolated track. The use of an isolated track to identify the second lepton increases the t " t acceptance, particularly for the case in which one W decays as W !. The purity of the sample may be further improved at the cost of a reduction in the number of signal events, by requiring an identified b jet. We present the results of measurements performed with and without the request of an identified b jet. The former is the first published CDF result for which a b-jet requirement is added to the dilepton selection. In the CDF data there are 129 pretag lepton þ track candidate events, of which 69 are tagged. With the tagging information, the sample is divided into tagged and untagged subsamples, and a combined cross section is calculated by maximizing a likelihood. The result is t" t ¼ 9:6 AE 1:2ðstatÞ þ0:6 À0:5 ðsysÞ AE 0:6ðlumÞ pb, assuming a branching ratio of BRðW ! 'Þ ¼ 10:8% and a top mass of m t ¼ 175 GeV=c 2 .