Measurement of the differential cross section for top quark pair production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

The normalized differential cross section for top quark pair (t¯t) production is measured in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV at the CERN LHC using the CMS detector in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7fb−1. The measurements are performed in the lepton+jets (e/μ +jets) and in the dilepton (e+e−, μ+μ−, and e±μ∓) decay channels. The t¯t cross section is measured as a function of the kinematic properties of the charged leptons, the jets associated to b quarks, the top quarks, and the t¯t system. The data are compared with several predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamic up to approximate next-to-next-to-leading-order precision. No significant deviations are observed relative to the standard model predictions.