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Phys. Rev. D 78, 111101(R) (2008) [8 pages]

First measurement of the fraction of top-quark pair production through gluon-gluon fusion

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T. Aaltonen et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 20 December 2007; published 2 December 2008

We present the first measurement of σ(ggtt̅ )/σ(pp̅ →tt̅ ). We use 0.96  fb-1 of s=1.96  TeV pp̅ collision data recorded with the CDF II detector at Fermilab. Using charged particles with low transverse momentum in tt̅ events, we find σ(ggtt̅ )/σ(pp̅ →tt̅ )=0.07±0.14(stat)±0.07(syst), corresponding to a 95% confidence level upper limit of 0.33, in agreement with the standard model next-to-leading-order prediction of 0.15±0.05.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.111101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.111101
PACS:
13.85.−t, 12.38.Aw, 12.38.Qk, 14.65.Ha