  Electroweak production of the top quark is measured in pp collisions at
sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, using a dataset collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 inverse picobarns. With an
event selection optimized for t-channel production, two complementary analyses
are performed. The first one exploits the special angular properties of the
signal, together with background estimates from data. The second approach uses
a multivariate analysis technique to probe the compatibility with signal
topology expected from electroweak top quark production. The combined
measurement of the cross section is 83.6 +/- 29.8 (stat.+syst.) +/- 3.3 (lumi.)
pb, consistent with the standard model expectation.
