Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions

Sirunyan, A. M.; Adžić, Petar; Ćirković, Predrag; Devetak, Damir; Đorđević, Miloš; Milošević, Jovan; Rekovic, V.; Milenović, Predrag

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001

2017

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Sirunyan, A. M.
Adžić, Petar
Ćirković, Predrag

Devetak, Damir

Đorđević, Miloš

Milošević, Jovan

Rekovic, V.
Milenović, Predrag

CMS Collaboration (ukupan broj autora: 2250)

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Abstract

The first observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions is reported using proton-lead data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of root(S)(NN) = 8.16 TeV. The measurement is performed using events with exactly one isolated electron or muon candidate and at least four jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 174 nb(-1). The significance of the tt signal against the background-only hypothesis is above 5 standard deviations. The measured cross section is sigma(tt) = 45 +/- 8 nb, consistent with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics.

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Physical Review Letters, 2017, 119, 24

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