Measurement of Jet Multiplicity Distributions in t[bar over t] Production in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV

• Main Authors: Apyan, Aram (Contributor), Barbieri, R. (Contributor), Gauer, Gerry P. (Author), Busza, Wit (Contributor), Cali, Ivan Amos (Contributor), Chan, M. (Contributor), Di Matteo, Leonardo (Contributor), Dutta, V. (Contributor), Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Contributor), Goncharov, Maxim (Contributor), Gulhan, Doga Can (Contributor), Klute, Markus (Contributor), Lai, Yue Shi (Contributor), Lee, Y.-J (Contributor), Levin, A. (Contributor), Luckey, P. David, Jr (Contributor), Ma, Teng (Contributor), Paus, Christoph M. E. (Contributor), Ralph, Duncan Kelley (Contributor), Roland, Christof E. (Contributor), Roland, Gunther M. (Contributor), Stephans, George S. F. (Contributor), Stockli, Fabian (Contributor), Sumorok, Konstanty C. (Contributor), Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru (Contributor), Veverka, Jan (Contributor), Wyslouch, Boleslaw (Contributor), Yang, M. (Contributor), Yoon, A. S. (Contributor), Zanetti, Marco (Contributor), Zhukova, Victoria (Contributor), Bauer, Gerry P. (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag, 2014-10-27T17:08:44Z.
• Subjects: Article
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 The normalised differential top quark-antiquark production cross section is measured as a function of the jet multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC with the CMS detector. The measurement is performed in both the dilepton and lepton+jets decay channels using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. Using a procedure to associate jets to decay products of the top quarks, the differential cross section of the t[bar over t] production is determined as a function of the additional jet multiplicity in the lepton+jets channel. Furthermore, the fraction of events with no additional jets is measured in the dilepton channel, as a function of the threshold on the jet transverse momentum. The measurements are compared with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics and no significant deviations are observed.