Measurement of the tt̅ Production Cross Section in pp̅ Collisions at √s =1.96 TeV Using Dilepton Events

Authors

Darin Acosta, University of FloridaFollow
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration

Date of this Version

10-1-2004

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 142001 (2004). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2004 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We report a measurement of the tt̅ production cross section using dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy in pp̅ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Using a 197±12 pb^-1 data sample recorded by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab, we use two complementary techniques to select candidate events. We compare the number of observed events and selected kinematical distributions with the predictions of the standard model and find good agreement. The combined result of the two techniques yields a tt̅ production cross section of 7.0_-2.1^+2.4 (stat) _-1.1^+1.6 (syst)±0.4(lum) pb.