Measurement of the cross section for tt&lt;sup&gt;-&lt;/sup&gt; production with additional jets and b jets in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Sirunyan, A.M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Ambrogi, F.; Bergauer, T.; Dragicevic, M.; Erö, J.; Escalante Del Valle, A.; Flechl, M.; Frühwirth, R.; Caminada, L.; Deiters, K.; Erdmann, W.; Horisberger, R.; Ingram, Q.; Kaestli, H.C.; Kotlinski, D.; Langenegger, U.; Rohe, T.; Wiederkehr, S.A.; Trembath-reichert, S.

doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2020)125

Measurement of the cross section for tt^- production with additional jets and b jets in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Ambrogi F, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Erö J, Escalante Del Valle A, Flechl M, Frühwirth R, Caminada L, Deiters K, Erdmann W, Horisberger R, Ingram Q, Kaestli HC, Kotlinski D, Langenegger U, Rohe T, Wiederkehr SA, Trembath-reichert S, et al.

Citation

Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., … Trembath-reichert, S. (2020). Measurement of the cross section for tt^- production with additional jets and b jets in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(7), 125 (45 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)125

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Measurements of the cross section for the production of top quark pairs in association with a pair of jets from bottom quarks (σ_t_t^-_bb^-) and in association with a pair of jets from quarks of any flavor or gluons (σ_t_t^-jj) and their ratio are presented. The data were collected in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb^-1. The measurements are performed in a fiducial phase space and extrapolated to the full phase space, separately for the dilepton and lepton+jets channels, where lepton corresponds to either an electron or a muon. The results of the measurements in the fiducial phase space for the dilepton and lepton+jets channels, respectively, are σ_t_t^-jj = 2.36±0.02 (stat)±0.20 (syst) pb and 31.0±0.2 (stat)±2.9 (syst) pb, and for the cross section ratio 0.017 ± 0.001 (stat) ± 0.001 (syst) and 0.020 ± 0.001 (stat) ± 0.001 (syst). The values of σ_t_t^-b_b^- are determined from the product of the σ_t_t^-jj and the cross section ratio, obtaining, respectively, 0.040±0.002 (stat)±0.005 (syst) pb and 0.62±0.03 (stat)±0.07 (syst) pb. These measurements are the most precise to date and are consistent, within the uncertainties, with the standard model expectations obtained using a matrix element calculation at next-to-leading order in quantum chromodynamics matched to a parton shower.