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CMS Physics Analysis Summaries
Report number	CMS-PAS-TOP-21-007 ; TOTEM-NOTE-2022-002
Title	Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13\,\text{TeV}$ with tagged protons
Corporate author(s)	CMS Collaboration ; TOTEM Collaboration
Collaboration	CMS Collaboration ; TOTEM Collaboration
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; CMS ; TOTEM
Abstract	A search for the central exclusive production of top quark pairs ($\text{t}\overline{\text{t}}$) is performed using proton-tagged events in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of $13\,\text{TeV}$. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of $29.4\,\text{fb}^{-1}$. The $\text{t}\overline{\text{t}}$ decay products are reconstructed using the CMS central detector, while forward protons are detected with the CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer. An upper bound on the production cross section of $0.59\,\text{pb}$ is set at $95\%$ confidence level.
Other source	Inspire
Related	superseded by: CERN-EP-2023-113
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