Recent measurements of top cross sections at CMS
Abstract
This contribution presents recent cross section measurements for top quark pair production ( \mathrm{t\bar{t}} 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 \mathrm{t\bar{t}} 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 \mathrm{(stat)} ± 2.4 \mathrm{(syst)} ± 1.2 \mathrm{(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 \mathrm{(stat)} ^{+9.9}_{-9.7} \mathrm{(syst)} ± 3.3 \mathrm{(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.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Superconducting Materials and Applications
Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers
Particle Detector Development and Performance
Publication details
- Journal / source
- SciPost Physics Proceedings
- Issue
- 18
- Publication date
- 29 January 2026
- Language
- EN