Here are the numbers CMS has used for the tt cross section from 27 May 2011: CERN-PH-EP/2011-055 CMS-TOP-11-002 http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5661 NLO MCFM 157.5 +18 -19.5 (scale) +-14.7 (PDF+alphas) pb. m_top = 172.5 GeV Approx NNLO 163 +11 -10pb, ref Phys.Rev. D82, 114030 (2010) m_top = 173 GeV