--- ttbar/p20_taujets_note/Abstract.tex 2011/05/18 21:30:39 1.1.1.1 +++ ttbar/p20_taujets_note/Abstract.tex 2011/06/01 01:20:54 1.2 @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ -This note presents a new measurement of $p\bar p \to t \bar tX$ production +We present a new measurement of $p\bar p \to t \bar tX$ production at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV using 4951.86 pb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the -D\O\ detector between 2002 and 2010. We focus on the final state +D0 detector between 2002 and 2010. We focus on the final state where the $W$ boson from one of the top quarks decays into a -$\tau$ lepton and its associated neutrino, while the other W boson decays into +$\tau$ lepton and its associated neutrino, while the other $W$ boson decays into a quark-antiquark pair. We aim to select those events in which the -$\tau$ lepton subsequently decays hadronically, meaning to one or three charged hadrons, zero -or more neutral hadrons and a tau neutrino. We use a neural network b-tagging algorithm -as well as a topological neural network to enhance signal over the background. For a top quark -mass of 172.5 GeV the preliminary result for the measured cross section is: +$\tau$ lepton subsequently decays hadronically, meaning to one or more charged hadrons, zero +or more neutral hadrons and a tau neutrino. We train a topological neural network +as the method to enhance signal over the background. For a top quark +mass of 172.5 GeV we measure the cross section to be: \begin{center}\[\sigma (t\overline{t}) = -8.46\;\;_{-1.04}^{+1.06}\;\;({\textrm{stat}})\;\;_{-0.88}^{+0.92}\;\;({\textrm{syst}})\;\;\pm 0.3\;\;({\textrm{lumi}})\;\; \rm{pb.}\] +8.46\;\;_{-1.04}^{+1.06}\;\;({\textrm{stat}})\;\;_{-0.78}^{+0.84}\;\;({\textrm{syst}})\;\;\pm 0.3\;\;({\textrm{lumi}})\;\; \rm{pb.}\] \par\end{center}