Measurement of differential t t ¯ production cross sections in p p ¯ collisions

• Published in: Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 2014-11, Vol.90 (9), Article 092006
• Main Authors: Abazov, V. M., Abbott, B., Acharya, B. S., Adams, M., Adams, T., Agnew, J. P., Alexeev, G. D., Alkhazov, G., Alton, A., Askew, A., Atkins, S., Augsten, K., Avila, C., Badaud, F., Bagby, L., Baldin, B., Bandurin, D. V., Banerjee, S., Barberis, E., Baringer, P., Bartlett, J. F., Bassler, U., Bazterra, V., Bean, A., Begalli, M., Bellantoni, L., Beri, S. B., Bernardi, G., Bernhard, R., Bertram, I., Besançon, M., Beuselinck, R., Bhat, P. C., Bhatia, S., Bhatnagar, V., Blazey, G., Blessing, S., Bloom, K., Boehnlein, A., Boline, D., Boos, E. E., Borissov, G., Borysova, M., Brandt, A., Brandt, O., Brock, R., Bross, A., Brown, D., Bu, X. B., Buehler, M., Buescher, V., Bunichev, V., Burdin, S., Buszello, C. P., Camacho-Pérez, E., Casey, B. C. K., Castilla-Valdez, H., Caughron, S., Chakrabarti, S., Chan, K. M., Chandra, A., Chapon, E., Chen, G., Cho, S. W., Choi, S., Choudhary, B., Cihangir, S., Claes, D., Clutter, J., Cooke, M., Cooper, W. E., Corcoran, M., Couderc, F., Cousinou, M.-C., Cutts, D., Das, A., Davies, G., de Jong, S. J., De La Cruz-Burelo, E., Déliot, F., Demina, R., Denisov, D., Denisov, S. P., Desai, S., Deterre, C., DeVaughan, K., Diehl, H. T., Diesburg, M., Ding, P. F., Dominguez, A., Dubey, A., Dudko, L. V., Duperrin, A., Dutt, S., Eads, M., Edmunds, D., Ellison, J., Elvira, V. D., Enari, Y., Evans, H.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
• ISSN: 1550-7998; 1550-2368
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.092006

Here, the production of top quark-antiquark pair events in p¯p collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV is studied as a function of the transverse momentum and absolute value of the rapidity of the top quarks as well as of the invariant mass of the t¯t pair. We select events containing an isolated lepton, a large imbalance in transverse momentum, and four or more jets with at least one jet identified as originating from a b quark. The data sample corresponds to 9.7 fb–1 of integrated luminosity recorded with the D0 detector during Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Observed differential cross sections are consistent with standard model predictions.