Naslov
Observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions

Autori
Sirunyan, Albert ; ... ; Mesić, Benjamin ; Godinović, Nikola ; Puljak, Ivica ; Starodumov, Andrey ; Lelas, Damir ; Kovač, Marko ; Đurić, Senka ; Ferenček, Dinko ; Brigljević, Vuko ; Luetić, Jelena ; Antunović, Željko ; Kadija, Krešo ; Šuša, Tatjana ; ... ; Woods, Nate

Kolaboracija
CMS Collaboration

Izvornik
Physical Review Letters (0031-9007) 119 (2017); 242001, 17

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
High energy physics, Experimental particle physics, LHC, CMS, Standard Model

Sažetak
The first observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions is reported using proton-lead data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s[NN]) = 8.16 TeV. The measurement is performed using events with exactly one isolated electron or muon and at least four jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 174 inverse nanobarns. The significance of the tt-bar signal against the background-only hypothesis is above five standard deviations. The measured cross section is sigma[tt-bar] = 45 +/- 8 nb, consistent with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika

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