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Measurements of the t anti-t production cross section at the Tevatron run II CDF experiment using b-tagging

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Description

We present measurements of the top-antitop production cross section in b-tagged lepton + jets events from proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV using the CDF detector at Fermilab. B-jets are tagged with either a secondary vertex algorithm, or a soft lepton tagger that identifies muons from B hadron semileptonic decays. With Tevatron Run II data, we estimate the top-antitop signal fraction in two different ways: by estimating the various background contributions, and by fitting directly the leading jet transverse energy spectrum for the signal and background contributions. A subset of the sample with two secondary vertex tagged jets yields a production cross section consistent with the inclusive measurements. Results are consistent with a Standard Model top-antitop signal and current measurements of the top quark mass

Availability note (English)

Available from http://lss.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/find_paper.pl?conf-04-448-E.pdf; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/15020287-HOuFvt/

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URL
http://lss.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/find_paper.pl?conf-04-448-E.pdf; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/15020287-HOuFvt/;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ex/0501007;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
3 p.
Report number
FERMILAB-CONF--04-448-E

Conference

Title
Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS)
Acronym
DPF 2004
Dates
26-31 Aug 2004
Place
Riverside, CA (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
38024777
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
CROSS SECTIONS; FERMILAB; FERMILAB COLLIDER DETECTOR; FERMILAB TEVATRON; HADRONS; LEPTONS; MUONS; SEMILEPTONIC DECAY; STANDARD MODEL; T QUARKS; TRANSVERSE ENERGY
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; KINETIC ENERGY; LEPTONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARKS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SYNCHROTRONS; TOP PARTICLES; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
arXiv eprint number HEP-EX--0501007; AC02-76CH03000
Notes
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A20:3180,2005
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States)