Evidence for top quark production in nucleus-nucleus collisions
dc.contributor.author | Sirunyan, A. M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Işıldak, Bora | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-17T12:17:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-17T12:17:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-11-24 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10679/7318 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.222001 | |
dc.description.abstract | Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions recreate in the laboratory the thermodynamical conditions prevailing in the early universe up to 10(-6) sec, thereby allowing the study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter with deconfined partons. The top quark, the heaviest elementary particle known, is accessible in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN LHC, and constitutes a novel probe of the QGP. Here, we report the first evidence for the production of top quarks in nucleus-nucleus collisions, using lead-lead collision data at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment. Two methods are used to measure the cross section for top quark pair production (sigma(t (t) over bar)) via the selection of charged leptons (electrons or muons) and bottom quarks. One method relies on the leptonic information alone, and the second one exploits, in addition, the presence of bottom quarks. The measured cross sections, sigma(t (t) over bar) = 2.54(-0.74)(+0.84) and 2.03(-0.64)(+0.71) mu b, respectively, are compatible with expectations from scaled proton-proton data and QCD predictions. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT, PUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); NKFIA (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR, and NRC KI (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI, CPAN, PCTI, and FEDER (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Physical Review Letters | |
dc.rights | openAccess | |
dc.title | Evidence for top quark production in nucleus-nucleus collisions | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.description.version | Publisher version | 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 | 125 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 22 | en_US |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000591812900005 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.222001 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | SCOPUS:2-s2.0-85097318502 | |
dc.contributor.authorMale | 1 | |
dc.relation.publicationcategory | Article - International Refereed Journal - Institutional Academic Staff |
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