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Phys. Rev. D 79, 052007 (2009) [25 pages]

Measurement of the tt̅ production cross section in 2  fb-1 of pp̅ collisions at s=1.96  TeV using lepton plus jets events with soft muon b tagging

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T. Aaltonen et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 26 January 2009; published 20 March 2009

We present a measurement of the tt̅ production cross section in pp̅ collisions at s=1.96  TeV using events containing a high transverse momentum electron or muon, three or more jets, and missing transverse energy. Events consistent with tt̅ decay are found by identifying jets containing candidate heavy-flavor semileptonic decays to muons. The measurement uses a CDF run II data sample corresponding to 2  fb-1 of integrated luminosity. Based on 248 candidate events with three or more jets and an expected background of 79.5±5.3 events, we measure a production cross section of 9.1±1.6  pb.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.052007
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.052007
PACS:
13.85.Ni, 13.85.Qk, 14.65.Ha