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%.
Originele taal-2English
Artikelnummer187
Aantal pagina's46
TijdschriftJHEP
Volume2024
Nummer van het tijdschrift6
DOI's
StatusPublished - 27 jun. 2024

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Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-21-007 (CMS Public Pages)

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