Measurement of the Cross Section for $t\bar{t}$ Production in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions using the Kinematics of Lepton+Jets Events

Abstract

We present a measurement of the top pair production cross section in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV. We collect a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 194$\pm$11 pb${}^{-1}$ with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We use an artificial neural network technique to discriminate between top pair production and background processes in a sample of 519 lepton+jets events, which have one isolated energetic charged lepton, large missing transverse energy and at least three energetic jets. We measure the top pair production cross section to be ${\sigma }_{t\bar{t}}=6.6$$\pm 1.1\pm 1.5$ pb, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.

Published on September 15 in Phys. Rev. D, few minor typo's corrected

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