Measurement of the Top Pair Production Cross Section in the Lepton + Jets Channel Using a Jet Flavor Discriminant

T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, S. Amerio +513

We present a new method to measure the top quark pair production cross section and the background rates with 2.7 fb${}^{-1}$ of data from $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ Te…