Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with tagged protons

The CMS collaboration; The TOTEM collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2024)187

Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with tagged protons

The CMS collaboration, The TOTEM collaboration

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Abstract

A search for the central exclusive production of top quark-antiquark pairs (tt¯) is performed for the first time using proton-tagged events in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 29.4 fb⁻¹. The tt¯ decay products are reconstructed using the central CMS detector, while forward protons are measured in the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer. An observed (expected) upper bound on the production cross section of 0.59 (1.14) pb is set at 95% confidence level, for collisions of protons with fractional momentum losses between 2 and 20%.

Original language	English
Article number	187
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2024
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2024)187
State	Published - 1 Jun 2024
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Hadron-Hadron Scattering
Top Physics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with tagged protons

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