CERN Accelerating science

CMS Note
Report number	CMS-CR-2015-047
Title	Top quark physics experimental results at CMS: Cross section and mass measurements at the LHC
Author(s)	Gallinaro, Michele (LIP, Lisbon)
Collaboration	CMS Collaboration
Imprint	06 May 2015. - 9 p.
Presented at	29th Rencontres de Physique de La Vallée d'Aoste, La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, 1 - 7 Mar 2015
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; CMS
Keywords	General
Abstract	The top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron almost exactly twenty years ago, has taken a central role in the study of fundamental interactions. Its large mass suggests that it may play a special role in Nature. With approximately 25~fb$^{-1}$ of data collected by the CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Run~1 (2010-2012), top quark physics is at a turning point from first studies to precision measurements with sensitivity to new physics processes. This report summarizes the latest experimental results on top quark production cross section and mass measurements.
Copyright/License	Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0)