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 sNN=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 σtt=45±8 nb, consistent with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics.

Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., et al. (2017). Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 119(24), 242001 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001].

Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions

BESCHI, ANDREA;Brianza, L.;Brivio, F.;Ciriolo, V.;Dinardo, M. E.;Fiorendi, S.;Ghezzi, A.;Govoni, P.;Malberti, M.;Manzoni, R. A.;Paganoni, M.;Pauwels, K.;Pigazzini, S.;Ragazzi, S.;Tabarelli De Fatis, T.;Lucchini, M. T.;Gerosa, R.;Massironi, A.;De Guio, F.;
2017

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 sNN=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 σtt=45±8 nb, consistent with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics.
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LHC, CMS, top
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2017
119
24
242001
242001
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Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., et al. (2017). Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 119(24), 242001 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001].
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