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    Study of ageing and gain limits of microstrip gas chambers at high rates

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    The CMS experiment comprises MSGCs as one of the key detection elements for high luminosity tracking at LHC. In addition to the high dose rate of 10 mC/year per cm of strip, these detectors have to survive the hostile presence of highly ionizing particles, neutrons low energy gammas and hadrons. In this report we present the results of systematic tests on maximum safe operational gain limits in MSGCs before the discharge. Long term ageing tests performed on prototype open Ibanana¹ modules envisaged to be arranged around the interaction region in the forward part of the CMS tracker show no evidence of gain drop up to equivalent ~ 10 years of LHC operation. A comparison is made between argon and neon gas mixtures with DME in equal proportions by investigating long term irradiation effects on chamber operation by introducing controlled and reproducible pollution in the gas lines

    Measurement of jet multiplicity distributions in [Formula: see text] production in pp collisions at [Formula: see text].

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    The normalised differential top quark-antiquark production cross section is measured as a function of the jet multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7[Formula: see text] at the LHC with the CMS detector. The measurement is performed in both the dilepton and lepton+jets decay channels using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0[Formula: see text]. Using a procedure to associate jets to decay products of the top quarks, the differential cross section of the [Formula: see text] production is determined as a function of the additional jet multiplicity in the lepton+jets channel. Furthermore, the fraction of events with no additional jets is measured in the dilepton channel, as a function of the threshold on the jet transverse momentum. The measurements are compared with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics and no significant deviations are observed
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