@article{3145860,
    title = "Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in p(p)over-bar
collisions at root s=1.96 TeV using soft electron b-tagging",
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    journal = "Physical Review D",
    year = "2010",
    volume = "81",
    number = "9",
    publisher = "AMER PHYSICAL SOC",
    issn = "2470-0010, 2470-0029",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.81.092002",
    abstract = "We present a measurement of the top-quark pair-production cross section
in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV using a data sample
corresponding to 1.7 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected with the
Collider Detector at Fermilab. We reconstruct t (t) over bar events in
the lepton + jets channel, consisting of e nu + jets and mu nu + jets
final states. The dominant background is the production of W bosons in
association with multiple jets. To suppress this background, we identify
electrons from the semileptonic decay of heavy-flavor jets (”soft
electron tags”). From a sample of 2196 candidate events, we obtain 120
tagged events with a background expectation of 51 +/- 3 events,
corresponding to a cross section of sigma(t (t) over bar) = 7.8 +/-
2.4(stat) +/- 1.6(syst) +/- 0.5(lumi) pb. We assume a top-quark mass of
175 GeV/c(2). This is the first measurement of the t (t) over bar cross
section with soft electron tags in run II of the Tevatron."
}