Observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions
(2018) Physical Review Letters — Vol. 119, p. 242001 (2018)
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David, Pieter 
Wertz, Sébastien
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- 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
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Bakhshiansohi, H., Bondu, O., Brochet, S., Bruno, G., Caputo, C., Caudron, A., David, P., de Visscher, S., Delaere, C., Delcourt, M., François, B., Giammanco, A., Komm, M., Krintiras, G., Lemaitre, V., Magitteri, A., Mertens, A., Musich, M., Piotrzkowski, K., et al. (2018). Observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions. Physical Review Letters, 119, 242001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.242001 (Original work published 2018)