@article{10902/2269,
year = {2011},
month = {8},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/2269},
abstract = {We present a new method to measure the top quark pair production cross section and the background rates with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.7  fb-1 from pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96  TeV collected with the CDF II Detector. We select events with a single electron or muon candidate, missing transverse energy, and at least one b-tagged jet. We perform a simultaneous fit to a jet flavor discriminant across nine samples defined by the number of jets and b tags. An advantage of this approach is that many systematic uncertainties are measured in situ and inversely scale with integrated luminosity. We measure a top cross section of σtt̅ =7.64±0.57(stat+syst)±0.45(luminosity)  pb.},
organization = {We thank the Fermilab staff and the technical staffs of the participating institutions for their vital contributions. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation ; the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; the National Science Council of the Republic of China; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany; the Korean World Class University Program, the National Research Foundation of Korea; the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Royal Society, UK; the Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et Physique des Particules/CNRS; the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, and Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain; the Slovak R&D Agency; and the Academy of Finland.},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
publisher = {Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2011, 84(3), 031101(R)},
title = {Measurement of the top pair production cross section in the lepton+jets channel using a jet flavor discriminant},
author = {Aaltonen, Timo Antero and Álvarez González, Bárbara and Casal Laraña, Bruno and Cuevas Maestro, Francisco Javier and Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio and Palencia Cortezón, José Enrique and Rodrigo Anoro, Teresa and Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto and Scodellaro, Luca and Vila Álvarez, Iván  and Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocío and Vizán García, Jesús Manuel},
}