Measurement of the tt¯ production cross-section and lepton differential distributions in eμ dilepton events from pp collisions at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7907-9

Measurement of the tt¯ production cross-section and lepton differential distributions in eμ dilepton events from pp collisions at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

University at Albany, Stony Brook University

Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
University of Massachusetts
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
University of Pavia
University of Göttingen
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Toronto
University of Copenhagen
University of Sussex
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Argonne National Laboratory
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
The University of Tokyo
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Université Grenoble Alpes
AGH University of Krakow
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Bogazici University
University of Geneva
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of California at Santa Cruz
Université Paris-Saclay
Université Clermont Auvergne
Radboud University Nijmegen
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
McGill University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Kyoto University
Lund University
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
CERN
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
University of Amsterdam
National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
IThemba Labs
Department of Physics
University of South Africa
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
Department of Physics
Universidad Andrés Bello
Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
University of Massachusetts
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
University of Pavia
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of California at Santa Cruz
Université Clermont Auvergne
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
McGill University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lund University
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
Department of Physics
University of South Africa
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

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The inclusive top quark pair (tt¯) production cross-section σ_t _t¯ has been measured in proton–proton collisions at s=13TeV, using 36.1 fb^{- 1} of data collected in 2015–2016 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Using events with an opposite-charge eμ pair and b-tagged jets, the cross-section is measured to be: σtt¯=826.4±3.6(stat)±11.5(syst)±15.7(lumi)±1.9(beam)pb,where the uncertainties reflect the limited size of the data sample, experimental and theoretical systematic effects, the integrated luminosity, and the LHC beam energy, giving a total uncertainty of 2.4%. The result is consistent with theoretical QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order. It is used to determine the top quark pole mass via the dependence of the predicted cross-section on mtpole, giving mtpole=173.1-2.1+2.0GeV. It is also combined with measurements at s=7TeV and s=8TeV to derive ratios and double ratios of tt¯ and Z cross-sections at different energies. The same event sample is used to measure absolute and normalised differential cross-sections as functions of single-lepton and dilepton kinematic variables, and the results are compared with predictions from various Monte Carlo event generators.

Original language	English
Article number	528
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	80
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7907-9
State	Published - Jun 1 2020

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Measurement of the tt¯ production cross-section and lepton differential distributions in eμ dilepton events from pp collisions at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector

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