Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions

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.

Source:
Physical Review Letters, 2017, 119, 24

Funding / projects:

BMWFW (Austria), FWF (Austria), FNRS (Belgium), FWO (Belgium), CNPq (Brazil), CAPES (Brazil), FAPERJ (Brazil), FAPESP (Brazil), MES (Bulgaria), CERN, CAS (China), MoST (China), NSFC (China), COLCIENCIAS (Colombia), MSES (Croatia), CSF (Croatia), RPF (Cyprus), SENESCYT (Ecuador), MoER (Estonia), ERC IUT (Estonia), ERDF (Estonia), Academy of Finland, MEC (Finland), HIP (Finland), CEA (France), CNRS/IN2P3 (France), BMBF, Germany, DFG (Germany), HGF (Germany), GSRT (Greece), OTKA (Hungary), NIH (Hungary), DAE (India), DST (India), IPM (Iran), SFI (Ireland), INFN (Italy), MSIP (Republic of Korea), NRF (Republic of Korea), LAS (Lithuania), MOE (Malaysia), UM (Malaysia), BUAP (Mexico), CINVESTAV (Mexico), CONACYT (Mexico), LNS (Mexico), SEP (Mexico), UASLP-FAI (Mexico), MBIE (New Zealand), PAEC (Pakistan), MSHE (Poland), NSC (Poland), FCT (Portugal), JINR (Dubna), MON (Russia), RosAtom (Russia), RAS (Russia), RFBR (Russia), RAEP (Russia), MESTD (Serbia), SEIDI (Spain), CPAN (Spain), PCTI (Spain), FEDER (Spain), Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland), MST (Taipei), ThEPCenter (Thailand), IPST (Thailand), STAR (Thailand), NSTDA (Thailand), TUBITAK (Turkey), TAEK (Turkey), NASU (Ukraine), SFFR (Ukraine), STFC (United Kingdom), DOE (USA), NSF (USA), State Fund for Fundamental Researches

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001

ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114

PubMed: 29286735

WoS: 000417934800002

Scopus: 2-s2.0-85038597618

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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.",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
title = "Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions",
volume = "119",
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Sirunyan, A. M., Adžić, P., Ćirković, P., Devetak, D., Đorđević, M., Milošević, J., Reković, V.,& Milenović, P.. (2017). Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions. in Physical Review Letters, 119(24).
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001

Sirunyan AM, Adžić P, Ćirković P, Devetak D, Đorđević M, Milošević J, Reković V, Milenović P. Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions. in Physical Review Letters. 2017;119(24).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001 .

Sirunyan, A. M., Adžić, Petar, Ćirković, Predrag, Devetak, Damir, Đorđević, Miloš, Milošević, Jovan, Reković, Vladimir, Milenović, Predrag, "Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions" in Physical Review Letters, 119, no. 24 (2017),
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001 . .