Measurement of the ttbar production cross section in the fully hadronic decay channel in pp collisions at 7 TeV

Abstract

The first measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in the fully hadronic channel at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt s = 7$ TeV is presented. The measurement has been performed using an integrated luminosity of 1.09 fb$^{-1}$, collected with the CMS detector. The reconstruction of the $t\bar t$ candidates is performed after a cut-based event selection using a kinematic fit. A data-driven technique is used to estimate the dominant background from QCD multijet production. The cross section is determined from a fit to the top quark mass. The cross section measurement yields $\sigma(t\bar t)=136 \pm 20 (stat.) \pm 40 (sys.) \pm 8 (lumi.)$ pb. This result is consistent with an independent measurement in the same channel, with the measurements in other decay channels and with the Standard Model predictions.