Ponente
Lukas Baeni
(ETH Zurich (CH))
Descripción
Result of merged abstracts:
Precision measurements are presented of the top-quark pair inclusive production cross section in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV. The data are collected with the CMS experiment during the years 2011 and 2012. The analyses include all top quark pair final states with the exception of events with two tau-leptons in the final state. In most analyses b-jet identification is used to increase the purity of the selection. The backgrounds are determined using data-driven techniques. The results are combined with each other and compared with theory predictions.
Full NNLO+NNLL QCD predictions for the cross section of top-quark pair production are used together with different parton distribution functions (PDFs) to extract the strong coupling constant, alpha_S, from the cross section measured by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV.
Autor primario
Arnd Meyer
(RWTH Aachen University)
