# Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics 2011

20-27 July 2011
Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo
Europe/Paris timezone

## Measurements of the top quark pair production cross section in pp collisions at 7 TeV using the CMS detector

21 Jul 2011, 11:30
30m
Stendhal (Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo)

### Stendhal

#### Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo

Parallel session talk Top and Electroweak Physics

### Speaker

Andreas Meyer (DESY)

### Description

We present several measurements of the top-pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. We use data collected with the CMS experiment during the year 2011. Measurements are presented in the lepton+jets final state, where events are selected by requiring exactly one isolated and highly energetic muon or electron, and at least four jets. In addition the di-lepton final state, consisting of two electrons or muons, at least two jets, and significant missing energy in the transverse plane, is used. First measurements of the cross section for the production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at the LHC in the fully hadronic channel, as well as in final states involving tau leptons, specifically the tau+jets mode and the e-tau / mu-tau dilepton modes are also shown. The results, superseding previous measurements based on 2010 data, are combined and compared with the theory predictions.

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