Measurement of the t anti-t production cross section in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV using dilepton events

The CDF collaboration Acosta, D. ; Affolder, T. ; Akimoto, T. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 93 (2004) 142001, 2004.
Inspire Record 649267 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.54901

We report a measurement of the ttbar production cross section using dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy in ppbar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Using a 197 +/- 12 pb-1 data sample recorded by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab, we use two complementary techniques to select candidate events. We compare the number of observed events and selected kinematical distributions with the predictions of the Standard Model and find good agreement. The combined result of the two techniques yields a ttbar production cross section of 7.0 +2.4/-2.1(stat.) +1.6/-1.1(syst.) +/- 0.4(lum.) pb.

1 data table

Measured values of cross section for a top mass of 175 GeV. The second DSYS error is the uncertainty in the luminosity.