Measurements reveal accurate cross sections for top quark pair and single top quark production, indicating consistency with theoretical predictions.
This contribution presents recent cross section measurements for top quark pair production ( {tt̄} t t ‾ ) and single top quark production in association with a W boson (tW) in proton-proton collisions with the CMS experiment at LHC. For {tt̄} t t ‾ production, data from 2017 at a center-of-mass (CM) energy of 5.02 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 302 pb ⁻¹ − 1 were analyzed, with a measured inclusive cross section of 62.3 ± 1.5 (stat) ± 2.4 (syst) ± 1.2 (lumi) 62.3 ± 1.5 ( s t a t ) ± 2.4 ( s y s t ) ± 1.2 ( l u m i ) pb, consistent with Standard Model (SM) predictions. The tW measurement was performed using data from 2022 with an integrated luminosity of 34.7 fb ⁻¹ − 1 at a CM energy of 13.6 TeV, yielding a cross section of 82.3 ± 2.1 (stat) +9.9-9.7 (syst) ± 3.3 (lumi) 82.3 ± 2.1 ( s t a t ) − 9.7 + 9.9 ( s y s t ) ± 3.3 ( l u m i ) pb, in agreement with SM predictions. It includes also differential cross sections which are in good agreement with next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics.
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