Measurement of double-differential cross sections for top quark pair production in pp collisions at  s√=8 TeV and impact on parton distribution functions

Sirunyan, A. M.; Işıldak, Bora

dc.contributor.author	Sirunyan, A. M.
dc.contributor.author	Işıldak, Bora
dc.date.accessioned	2017-10-11T05:43:24Z
dc.date.available	2017-10-11T05:43:24Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.issn	1434-6044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10679/5646
dc.identifier.uri	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4984-5
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dc.description.abstract	Normalized double-differential cross sections for top quark pair ( tt¯tt¯ ) production are measured in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeVTeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1fb−1 . The measurement is performed in the dilepton e±μ∓e±μ∓ final state. The tt¯tt¯ cross section is determined as a function of various pairs of observables characterizing the kinematics of the top quark and tt¯tt¯ system. The data are compared to calculations using perturbative quantum chromodynamics at next-to-leading and approximate next-to-next-to-leading orders. They are also compared to predictions of Monte Carlo event generators that complement fixed-order computations with parton showers, hadronization, and multiple-parton interactions. Overall agreement is observed with the predictions, which is improved when the latest global sets of proton parton distribution functions are used. The inclusion of the measured tt¯tt¯ cross sections in a fit of parametrized parton distribution functions is shown to have significant impact on the gluon distribution.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and the Austrian Science Fund; the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; the Brazilian Funding Agencies (CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP); the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science; CERN; the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, and National Natural Science Foundation of China; the Colombian Funding Agency (COLCIENCIAS); the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, and the Croatian Science Foundation; the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus; the Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ecuador; the Ministry of Education and Research, Estonian Research Council via IUT23-4 and IUT23-6 and European Regional Development Fund, Estonia; the Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and Helsinki Institute of Physics; the Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules/CNRS, and Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives/CEA, France; the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, Germany; the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece; the National Scientific Research Foundation, and National Innovation Office, Hungary; the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology, India; the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and National Research Foundation (NRF), Republic of Korea; the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; the Ministry of Education, and University of Malaya (Malaysia); the Mexican Funding Agencies (BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI); the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand; the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Russian Competitiveness Program of NRNU MEPhI; the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia; the Secretaria de Estado de Investigacion, Desarrollo e Innovacioln, Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Plan de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion 2013-2017 del Principado de Asturias and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies (ETH Board, ETH Zurich, PSI, SNF, UniZH, Canton Zurich, and SER); the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand, Special Task Force for Activating Research and the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand; the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and Turkish Atomic Energy Authority; the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and State Fund for Fundamental Researches, Ukraine; the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; the US Department of Energy, and the US National Science Foundation. Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET(European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus 2014/13/B/ST2/02543, 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, and 2015/19/B/ST2/02861, Sonata-bis 2012/07/E/ST2/01406; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Programa Clarin-COFUND del Principado de Asturias; the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845.
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Springer International Publishing	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	The European Physical Journal C
dc.rights	restrictedAccess
dc.title	Measurement of double-differential cross sections for top quark pair production in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV and impact on parton distribution functions	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.peerreviewed	yes	en_US
dc.publicationstatus	Published	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Özyeğin University
dc.contributor.authorID	(ORCID 0000-0002-0283-5234 & YÖK ID 124605) Işıldak, Bora
dc.contributor.ozuauthor	Işıldak, Bora
dc.creator	The CMS Collaboration
dc.identifier.volume	77	en_US
dc.identifier.issue	7	en_US
dc.identifier.startpage	1	en_US
dc.identifier.endpage	45	en_US
dc.identifier.wos	WOS:000405244200001
dc.identifier.doi	10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4984-5
dc.identifier.scopus	SCOPUS:2-s2.0-85024387884
dc.contributor.authorMale	1