{
  "id": "2310.11231",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2023-10-17T13:03:19.000Z",
  "updated": "2023-10-17T13:03:19.000Z",
  "title": "Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with tagged protons",
  "authors": [
    "CMS",
    "TOTEM Collaborations"
  ],
  "comment": "Submitted to the Journal of High Energy Physics. All figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-21-007 (CMS Public Pages)",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "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%.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2023-10-17T13:03:19.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "central exclusive production",
      "proton-proton collisions",
      "quark pairs",
      "tagged protons",
      "cms-totem precision proton spectrometer"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}