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Phys. Rev. D 80, 071102(R) (2009) [8 pages]

Combination of tt̅ cross section measurements and constraints on the mass of the top quark and its decays into charged Higgs bosons

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V. M. Abazov et al.
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Received 31 March 2009; published 19 October 2009

We combine measurements of the top quark pair production cross section in pp̅ collisions in the +jets, , and τ final states (where is an electron or muon) at a center of mass energy of s=1.96  TeV in 1  fb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector. For a top quark mass of 170  GeV/c2, we obtain σtt̅ =8.18-0.87+0.98  pb in agreement with the theoretical prediction. Based on predictions from higher order quantum chromodynamics, we extract a mass for the top quark from the combined tt̅ cross section, consistent with the world average of the top quark mass. In addition, the ratios of tt̅ cross sections in different final states are used to set upper limits on the branching fractions B(tH+bτ+νb) and B(tH+bcs̅ b) as a function of the charged Higgs boson mass.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.071102
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.071102
PACS:
14.65.Ha, 13.85.Lg, 13.85.Qk, 13.85.Rm