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Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in dilepton final states containing one τ lepton in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV

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The cross section of top quark pair production is measured in the tt¯→(ℓνℓ)(τhντ)bb¯ final state, where τ h refers to the hadronic decays of the τ lepton, and ℓ is either an electron or a muon. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb −1 collected in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the CMS detector. The measured cross section is σ t t ¯ = 781 ± 7 (stat) ± 62 (syst) ± 20 (lumi) pb, and the ratio of the partial width Γ(t → τν τb) to the total decay width of the top quark is measured to be 0.1050 ± 0.0009 (stat) ± 0.0071 (syst). This is the first measurement of the t t ¯ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV that explicitly includes τ leptons. The ratio of the cross sections in the ℓτ h and ℓℓ final states yields a value Rℓτh/ll = 0.973 ± 0.009 (stat) ± 0.066 (syst), consistent with lepton universality. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Tijdschrift: Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN: 1126-6708
Issue: 2
Volume: 2020
Jaar van publicatie:2020
Trefwoorden:hep-ex
  • ORCID: /0000-0002-6792-9522/work/79142212
  • ORCID: /0000-0002-8564-8732/work/75207104
  • ORCID: /0000-0002-9598-6241/work/75206781
  • ORCID: /0000-0002-7366-7098/work/75206564
  • Scopus Id: 85080991624
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02(2020)191
  • WoS Id: 000520519600001
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