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在LHC上使用CMS检测器收集的数据表示质子-质子碰撞在8 TeV质心处质子-质子碰撞中的顶级夸克对产生(tt)截面的测量。 19.6 fb-1。 这项分析是在tt衰减通道中进行的,该通道具有一个孤立的高横向动量电子或μ子和至少四个射流,其中至少有一个需要被确定为源自夸克的强子化作用。 射流能量规模的校准和b射流识别的效率是根据数据确定的。 测得的tt横截面为228.5±3.8(stat)±13.7(syst)±6.0(lumi)pb。 将此测量与7 TeV数据的分析相比较,对应于5.0 fb-1的综合亮度,以确定8 TeV与7 TeV横截面的比率,发现该比率为1.43±0.04(stat)± 0.07(系统)±0.05(流明)。 测量结果与QCD的预测一致,直到下一个领先的顺序。
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Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77:15
DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4504-z
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Measurements of the tt production cross section in lepton+jets
final states in pp collisions at 8 TeV and ratio of 8 to 7 TeV cross
sections
CMS Collaboration
∗
CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
Received: 29 February 2016 / Accepted: 14 November 2016 / Published online: 7 January 2017
© CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration 2017. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract A measurement of the top quark pair produc-
tion (t
t) cross section in proton–proton collisions at the
centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV is presented using data col-
lected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to
an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb
−1
. This analysis is per-
formed in the t
t decay channels with one isolated, high trans-
verse momentum electron or muon and at least four jets,
at least one of which is required to be identified as origi-
nating from hadronization of a b quark. The calibration of
the jet energy scale and the efficiency of b jet identification
are determined from data. The measured t
t cross section is
228.5 ± 3.8(stat)± 13.7 (syst) ± 6.0 (lumi) pb. This mea-
surement is compared with an analysis of 7 TeV data, cor-
responding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb
−1
, to deter-
mine the ratio of 8 TeV to 7 TeV cross sections, which is
found to be 1.43 ± 0.04 (stat) ± 0.07 (syst) ± 0.05 (lumi).
The measurements are in agreement with QCD predictions
up to next-to-next-to-leading order.
1 Introduction
Top quarks are abundantly produced at the CERN LHC. The
predicted top quark pair production cross section (σ
tt
)in
proton–proton (pp) collisions, at a centre-of-mass energy of
8 TeV, is 253 pb, with theoretical uncertainties at the level of
5–6%. A precise measurement of σ
tt
is an important test of
perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at high ener-
gies. Furthermore, precision t
t cross section measurements
can be used to constrain the top quark mass m
t
and QCD
parameters, such as the strong coupling constant α
S
[1], or
the parton distribution functions (PDF) of the proton [2].
The t
t production cross section was measured at the LHC
at
√
s = 7 and 8 TeV [3–18,18–25]. In this paper, a measure-
ment of the t
t production cross section in the final state with
one high transverse momentum lepton (muon or electron)
e-mail: cms-publication-committee-chair@cern.ch
and jets is presented using the 2012 data set at
√
s = 8TeV,
collected by the CMS experimentat the LHC and correspond-
ing to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb
−1
. To measure the
cross section ratio, where several systematic uncertainties
cancel, the 2011 data set at
√
s = 7 TeV, corresponding to
an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb
−1
, has been concurrently
analyzed with a similar strategy to the one developed for
the cross section measurement at 8 TeV. The new measure-
ment agrees very well with the previously published CMS
result [8]. The larger statistical uncertainty of the present
measurement with respect to the previous one is due to the
simultaneous determination of the b tagging efficiency, as
discussed in Sect. 6. Similarly to the 8 TeV analysis, an addi-
tional signal modelling uncertainty has been considered in
the 7 TeV analysis, as reported in Sect. 6.
In the standard model, top quarks are predominantly pro-
duced in pairs via the strong interaction and decay almost
exclusively into a W boson and a b quark. The event sig-
nature is determined by the subsequent decays of the two
W bosons. This analysis uses lepton+jets decays into muons
or electrons, where one of the W bosons decays into two
quarks and the other to a lepton and a neutrino. Decays of
the W boson into a tau lepton and a neutrino can enter the
selection if the tau lepton decays leptonically. The top quark
decaying into a b quark and a leptonically decaying W boson
is defined in the following as the “leptonic top quark”, while
the other top quark is referred to as “hadronic top quark”. For
the t
t signal two jets result from the hadronization of the b
and
b quarks (b jets), thus b tagging algorithms are employed
for the identification of b jets in order to improve the purity
of the t
t candidate sample.
The technique for extracting the t
t cross section consists
of a binned log-likelihood fit of signal and background to
the distribution of a discriminant variable in data showing a
good separation between signal and background: the invari-
ant mass of the b jet related to the leptonic top quark and the
lepton (M
b
). The mass of the three-jet combination with
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the highest transverse momentum in the event (M
3
)isusedas
a discriminant in an alternative analysis. The M
b
variable is
related to the leptonic top quark mass, while M
3
is a measure
for the hadronic top quark mass. Both quantities provide a
good separation between signal and background processes.
The analysis employs calibration techniques to reduce the
experimental uncertainties related to b tagging efficiencies
and jet energy scale (JES). The t
t topology is reconstructed
using a jet sorting algorithm in which the b jet most likely
originating from the leptonic top quark is identified. The
b tagging efficiency is then determined from a b-enriched
sample, in the peak region of the M
b
distribution, correcting
for the contamination from non-b jets, following the method
described in Refs. [26,27]. The rate of jets that are wrongly
tagged as originating from a b quark is also measured using
data as described in [28]. Independently, the JES is deter-
mined using the jets associated with the hadronically decay-
ing W boson by correcting the reconstructed mass of the
W boson in the simulation to that determined from the data.
The results of the cross section measurements are given
both for the visible region, i.e. for the phase space corre-
sponding to the event selection, and for the full phase space.
The visible region is defined by requiring the presence in the
simulation of exactly one lepton, one neutrino, and at least
four jets passing the selection criteria, as presented in Sect. 5.
This paper is structured as follows: after a description of
the CMS detector (see Sect. 2), the data and the simulated
samples are discussed in Sect. 3, while Sect. 4 is dedicated
to the event selection. The analysis technique and the impact
of the systematic uncertainties are addressed in Sect. 5 and
in Sect. 6. The results of the cross section measurements
are discussed in Sect. 7. Section 8 describes the alternative
analysis based on M
3
, followed by a summary in Sect. 9.
2 The CMS detector
The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconduct-
ing solenoid, of 6 m internal diameter, providing an axial
magnetic field of 3.8 T. Within the solenoidal field volume
are a silicon pixel and strip tracker which measure charged
particle trajectories in the pseudorapidity range |η| < 2.5.
Also within the field volume, the silicon detectors are sur-
rounded bya lead tungstate crystal electromagneticcalorime-
ter (|η| < 3.0) and a brass and scintillator hadron calorimeter
(|η| < 5.0) that provide high-resolution energy and direction
measurements ofelectrons and hadronic jets. Muons are mea-
sured in gas-ionization detectors embedded in the steel mag-
netic flux-return yoke outside the solenoid. The muon detec-
tion systems provide muon detection in the range |η| < 2.4.
A two-level trigger system selects the pp collision events
for use in physics analysis. A more detailed description of
the CMS detector, together with a definition of the coordi-
nate system used and the relevant kinematic variables, can
be found elsewhere [29].
3 Data and simulation
The cross section measurement is performed using the 8 TeV
pp collisions recorded by the CMS experiment in 2012, cor-
responding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 ± 0.5fb
−1
[30], and the 2011 data set at
√
s = 7 TeV, corresponding to
an integrated luminosity of 5.0 ± 0.2fb
−1
[31].
The t
t events are simulated using the Monte Carlo (MC)
event generators MadGraph (version 5.1.1.0) [32,33] and
powheg (v1.0 r1380) [34,35]. In MadGraph the top quark
pairs are generated at leading order with up to three additional
high-p
T
jets. The powheg generator implements matrix ele-
ments to next-to-leading order (NLO) in perturbative QCD,
with up to one additional jet. The mass of the top quark
is set to 172.5 GeV. The CT10 [36]PDFsetisusedby
powheg and the CTEQ6M [37–39]byMadGraph.The
pythia (v.6.426) [40] and herwig (v.6.520) [41] generators
are used to model the parton showering. The pythia shower
matching is done using the MLM prescription [42,43].
The top quark pair production cross section values are
predicted to be 177.3
+4.6
−6.0
(scale) ± 9.0 (PDF+α
S
) pb at
7 TeV and 252.9
+6.4
−8.6
(scale) ± 11.7 (PDF+α
S
) pb at 8 TeV,
as calculated with the Top++ 2.0 program to next-to-next-
to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, including
soft-gluon resummation to next-to-next-to-leading logarith-
mic (NNLL) order (Ref. [44] and references therein), and
assuming m
t
= 172.5 GeV. The first uncertainty comes from
the independent variation of the factorization and renormal-
ization scales, while the second one is associated to variations
in the PDF and α
S
following the PDF4LHC prescription with
the MSTW2008 68% confidence level NNLO, CT10 NNLO,
and NNPDF2.3 5f FFN PDF sets (Refs. [37,38] and refer-
ences therein, and Refs. [36,39]).
The top quark transverse momentum is reweighted in sam-
ples simulated with MadGraph and powheg, when inter-
faced to pythia, in order to better describe the p
T
distribution
observed in the data. Based on studies of differential distri-
butions [45,46] in the top quark transverse momentum, an
event weight w =
√
w
1
w
2
is applied, where the weights w
i
of the two top quarks are given as a function of the generated
top quark p
T
values: w
i
= exp(0.199−0.00166 p
i
T
/GeV) at
7 TeV, and w
i
= exp(0.156 − 0.00137 p
i
T
/GeV) at 8 TeV.
This reweighting is only applied to the phase space corre-
sponding to the experimental selections in the muon and
electron channels. The agreement between data and samples
generated with powheg interfaced with herwig is found to
be satisfactory, and no reweighting is applied in this case.
The W/Z+jets events, i.e. the associated production of
W/Z vector bosons with jets, with leptonic decays of the
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W/Z bosons, constitute the largest background. These are
also simulated using MadGraph withmatrix elements corre-
sponding to at least one jet and up to four jets. The W/Z+jets
events are generated inclusively with respect to the jet flavour.
Drell–Yan production of charged leptons is generated for
dilepton invariant masses above 50 GeV, as those events con-
stitute the relevant background in the phase space of this anal-
ysis. The contribution from Drell–Yan events with dilepton
invariant masses below 50 GeV is negligible, as verified with
a sample with a mass range of 10–50 GeV. Single top quark
production is simulated with powheg. The background pro-
cesses are normalized to NLO and NNLO cross section cal-
culations [47–51], with the exception of the QCD multijet
background, for which the normalization is obtained from
data in the M
3
analysis (see Sect. 8). In the M
b
analysis the
multijet background is reduced to a negligible fraction (see
Sect. 4) and thus not considered further.
Pileup signals, i.e. extra activity due to additional pp inter-
actions in the same bunch crossing, are incorporated by sim-
ulating additional interactions with a multiplicity matching
the one inferred from data. The CMS detector response is
modeled using Geant4 [52]. The simulated events are pro-
cessed by the same reconstruction software as the collision
data.
4 Reconstruction and event selection
This analysis focuses on the selection of t
t lepton+jets decays
in the muon and electron channels, with similar selection
requirements applied for the two channels. Muons, elec-
trons, photons, and neutral and charged hadrons are recon-
structed and identified by the CMS particle-flow (PF) algo-
rithm [53,54]. The energy of muons is obtained from the cor-
responding track momentum using the combined information
of the silicon tracker and the muon system [55]. The energy
of electrons is determined from a combination of the track
momentum in the tracker, the corresponding cluster energy
in the electromagnetic calorimeter, and the energy sum of
all bremsstrahlung photons associated to the track [56]. The
vertex with the largest p
2
T
sum of the tracks associated to it
is chosen as primary vertex.
Candidate t
t events are first accepted by dedicated trig-
gers requiring at least one muon or electron. Lepton isolation
requirements are applied to improve the purity of the selected
sample. At the trigger level the relative muon isolation, the
sum of transverse momenta of other particles in a cone of size
R =
√
(φ)
2
+ (η)
2
= 0.4 around the direction of the
candidate muon divided by the muon transverse momentum,
is required to be less than 0.2. Similarly, for electrons, the cor-
responding requirement is less than 0.3 in a cone of size 0.3.
Events with a muon in the final state are triggered on the pres-
ence of a muon candidate with p
T
> 24 GeV and |η| < 2.1.
Eventswith an electron candidate with |η| < 2.5 are accepted
by triggers requiring an electron with p
T
> 27 GeV.
Tighter p
T
requirements are applied in the offline selec-
tions. Muons are required to have a good quality [55] track
with p
T
> 25 GeV and |η| < 2.1. Electrons are identified
using a combination of the shower shape information and
track-electromagnetic cluster matching [56], and are required
to have p
T
> 32 GeV and |η| < 2.5, with the exclusion of the
transition region between the barrel and endcap electromag-
netic calorimeter, 1.44 < |η| < 1.57. Electrons identified
to come from photon conversions [56] are vetoed. Correc-
tion factors for trigger and lepton identification efficiencies
have been determined with a tag-and-probe method [57]from
data/simulation comparison as a function of the lepton p
T
and
η, and are applied to the simulation.
Signal events are required to have at least one pp inter-
action vertex, successfully reconstructed from at least four
tracks, within limits on the longitudinal and radial coordi-
nates [58], and exactly one muon, or electron, with an origin
consistent with the reconstructed vertex within limits on the
impact parameters. Since the lepton from the W boson decay
is expected to be isolated from other activity in the event, iso-
lation requirements are applied. A relativeisolation is defined
as I
rel
= (I
charged
+ I
photon
+ I
neutral
)/ p
T
, where p
T
is the
transverse momentum of the lepton and I
charged
, I
photon
, and
I
neutral
are the sums of the transverse energies of the charged
particles, the photons, and the neutral particles not identified
as photons, in a cone R < 0.4 (0.3) for muons (electrons)
around the lepton direction, excluding the lepton itself. The
relative isolation I
rel
is required to be less than 0.12 for muons
and 0.10 for electrons. Events with more than one lepton can-
didate with relaxed requirements are vetoed in order to reject
Z boson or t
t decays into dileptons.
The missing energy in the transverse plane (E
miss
T
)is
defined as the magnitude of the projection on the plane per-
pendicular to the beams of the vector sum of the momenta
of all PF candidates. It is required to be larger than 30 GeV
in the muon channel and larger than 40 GeV in the electron
channel, because of the larger multijet background.
Jets are clustered from the charged and neutral particles
reconstructed with the PF algorithm, using the anti-k
T
jet
algorithm [59] with a radius parameter of 0.5. Particles iden-
tified as isolated muons or electrons are not used in the jet
clustering. Jet energies are corrected for nonlinearities due
to different responses in the calorimeters and for the dif-
ferences between measured and simulated responses [60].
Furthermore, to account for extra activity within a jet cone
due to pileup, jet energies are corrected [53,54] for charged
hadrons that belong to a vertex other than the primary vertex,
and for the amount of pileup expected in the jet area from
neutral jet constituents.
At least four jets are required with p
T
> 40 GeV and
|η| < 2.5. An additional global calibration factor of the jet
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Events / 3 GeV
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
(8 TeV)
-1
19.6 fb
(GeV)
jmiss
T
E
Fig. 1 Transverse momentum distributions of the first- and second-
leading jet (top), the muon and E
miss
T
distribution (bottom) for all rele-
vant processes in the muon+jets channel with the requirement of at least
one b-tagged jet. The simulation is normalized to the standard model
cross section values and p
T
-reweighting is applied to the tt contribu-
tion. The multijet background is negligible and not shown. The distribu-
tions are already corrected for the b tagging efficiency scale factor. The
hashed area shows the uncertainty in the luminosity measurement and
the b tagging systematic uncertainty. The last bin includes the overflow.
The ratio between data and simulation is shown in the lower panels for
bins with non-zero entries.eps
energy scale is obtained by fitting the W boson mass distri-
bution in the data and in the simulation. The scale factor is
determined as the ratio of the W boson mass reconstructed
from non-b-tagged jet pairs in data and in the simulation.
This scale correction is applied in the simulation to all jets
before the selection requirements are implemented. It largely
reduces the systematic uncertainty related to the jet energy
scale, discussed in Sect. 6.
To reduce contamination from background processes, at
least one of the jets has to be identified as a b jet. The b tagging
algorithm used is the “combined secondary vertex” (CSV)
algorithm at the medium working point [26,27], correspond-
ing to a misidentification probability of about 1% for light-
parton jets (mistag rate) and an efficiency for b jets in the
range 60–70% depending on the jet p
T
and pseudorapid-
ity. Figure 1 shows kinematic distributions after applying the
b tagging requirement. Good agreement between data and
simulation is observed.
The M
b
analysis uses control samples in data for the esti-
mation of the b tagging efficiency, as described in Refs. [26–
28]. Among the four leading jets, three are assigned to the
hadronically decaying top quark through a χ
2
sorting algo-
rithm using top quark and W boson mass constraints. The
remaining fourth jet is the b jet candidate assigned to the
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(GeV)
bμ
M
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
Events / 10 GeV
0
500
CMS
1000
1500
2000
2500
Data
tt
Background
/ndf = 0.92
2
χFit
(8TeV)
-1
19.6 fb
(GeV)
eb
M
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
Events / 10 GeV
0
200
400
CMS
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
Data
tt
Background
/ndf = 0.73
2
χFit
(8 TeV)
-1
19.6 fb
Fig. 2 Distributions of the lepton-jet mass in the muon+jets (left) and electron+jets (right) channels, rescaled to the fit results
leptonically decaying top quark. The b tagging algorithm is
only applied to this b jet candidate.
Owing to differences in the triggers and in the centre-of-
mass energies, in the 7 TeV analysis slightly different selec-
tion criteria are applied on the lepton p
T
and E
miss
T
.The
muon transverse momentum is required to be larger than
26 GeV, while the electron p
T
has to be larger than 30 GeV.
No explicit E
miss
T
requirement is needed in the muon chan-
nel. Events with E
miss
T
> 30 GeV are selected in the electron
channel.
5 Visible and total cross section measurements
The number of t
t events is determined with a binned
maximum-likelihood fit of distributions (templates), describ-
ing signal and background processes, to the data sample pass-
ing the final selection, by fitting M
b
, the invariant mass dis-
tribution of the b jet and the lepton.
The t
t visible (σ
vis
t
t
) and total (σ
tt
) production cross sec-
tions are extracted from the number of t
t events observed in
the data using the equations
σ
vis
t
t
=
N
tt
L ε
tt
,σ
tt
=
σ
vis
t
t
A
, (1)
where N
tt
is the number of tt events (including both signal
events from the lepton+jets channel considered and events
from other decay channels) extracted from the fit, L is the
integrated luminosity, A is the t
t acceptance, and ε
tt
is the tt
selection efficiency within the acceptance requirements out-
lined in the next section. Results are presented for both the
visible and total cross section, in order to separate experi-
mental uncertainties from theoretical assumptions as much
as possible.
One template is used for t
t events (both for the tt signal
events and the other t
t events passing the selection criteria)
and one template for all background processes (W/Z+jets
and single top quark production). The fit is performed in the
range 0–500 GeV. Figure 2 shows the results for the fit to the
data distributions in the muon and electron channels.
5.1 Acceptance
The t
t acceptance A corresponding to the visible phase space
depends on the theoretical model and it is determined at the
generator level by requiring the presence of exactly one lep-
ton, one neutrino, and at least four jets, passing p
T
and |η|
selection criteria similar to the ones delineated in Sect. 4.
For simplicity a single acceptance definition, corresponding
to the tightest selection criteria, is used for both channels
at each centre-of-mass energy: exactly one muon, or elec-
tron, with p
T
> 32 GeV and |η| < 2.1, one neutrino with
p
T
> 40 GeV, and at least four jets with p
T
> 40 GeV and
|η| < 2.5.
The acceptance values include contributions from other t
t
decay channels, in particular from the dilepton channel, at
the level of about 9%.
The acceptance values are provided in Table 1 for the two
generators used in this analysis, MadGraph and powheg.
The acceptance values are in agreement at the 1–2% level
at 8 TeV and at better than 5% at 7 TeV. This different level
of agreement is due to the fact that the common acceptance
definition described above corresponds the tightest p
T
cri-
teria, i.e. to the p
T
requirements of the electron channel at
√
s = 8 TeV. The reweighted acceptance is determined as
the number of reweighted t
t events in the visible phase space,
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