Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section, the Top Quark Mass, and the Strong Coupling Constant Using Dilepton Events in pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV

European Physical Journal C 2019
Viesturs Veckalns, et al 100

© 2019, CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration. A measurement of the top quark–antiquark pair production cross section σ tt ¯ in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13Te is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb-1, recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016. Dilepton events (e ± μ ∓ , μ + μ - , e + e - ) are selected and the cross section is measured from a likelihood fit. For a top quark mass parameter in the simulation of mtMC=172.5Ge the fit yields a measured cross section σtt¯=803±2(stat)±25(syst)±20(lumi)pb, in agreement with the expectation from the standard model calculation at next-to-next-to-leading order. A simultaneous fit of the cross section and the top quark mass parameter in the powheg simulation is performed. The measured value of mtMC=172.33±0.14(stat)-0.72+0.66(syst)Ge is in good agreement with previous measurements. The resulting cross section is used, together with the theoretical prediction, to determine the top quark mass and to extract a value of the strong coupling constant with different sets of parton distribution functions.

DOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6863-8
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-019-6863-8

Veckalns, V., 100, e. Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section, the Top Quark Mass, and the Strong Coupling Constant Using Dilepton Events in pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV. European Physical Journal C, 2019, Vol. 79, No. 5, pp.1-10. ISSN 1434-6044. e-ISSN 1434-6052. Available from: doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6863-8

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