Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with tagged protons

CMS Collaboration; TOTEM Collaboration; Emil Sørensen Bols; Jorgen D'Hondt; Alexandre De Moor; Martin Delcourt; Hesham El Faham; Steven Lowette; Seth Moortgat; Alexander Morton; Denise Müller; Abanti Ranadhir Sahasransu; Stefaan Tavernier; Walter Van Doninck; David Vannerom; Nicolas Stylianou

doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2024)187

Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with tagged protons

CMS Collaboration, TOTEM Collaboration, Emil Sørensen Bols, Jorgen D'Hondt, Alexandre De Moor, Martin Delcourt, Hesham El Faham, Steven Lowette, Seth Moortgat, Alexander Morton, Denise Müller, Abanti Ranadhir Sahasransu, Stefaan Tavernier, Walter Van Doninck, David Vannerom, Nicolas Stylianou

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A search for the central exclusive production of top quark-antiquark pairs ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$) 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 $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ 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
Number of pages	46
Journal	JHEP
Volume	2024
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2024)187
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2024

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CMS Collaboration, TOTEM Collaboration, Bols, E. S., D'Hondt, J., De Moor, A., Delcourt, M., El Faham, H., Lowette, S., Moortgat, S., Morton, A., Müller, D., Sahasransu, A. R., Tavernier, S., Van Doninck, W., Vannerom, D., & Stylianou, N. (2024). Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with tagged protons. JHEP, 2024(6), Article 187. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2024)187

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Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with tagged protons

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EU674: iSAS: Innovate for Sustainable Accelerating Systems

FWOAL1078: Probing the Charm-Higgs Yukawa at the LHC.

iBOF/23/074: Unlocking the charm-Higgs coupling at the LHC

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