Aad, G;
Abbott, B;
Abbott, DC;
Abed Abud, A;
Abeling, K;
Abhayasinghe, DK;
Abidi, SH;
... Zwalinski, L; + view all
(2021)
Measurement of the tt¯tt¯ production cross section in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Journal of High Energy Physics
, 2021
(11)
, Article 118. 10.1007/jhep11(2021)118.
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Abstract
A measurement of four-top-quark production using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 is presented. Events are selected if they contain a single lepton (electron or muon) or an opposite-sign lepton pair, in association with multiple jets. The events are categorised according to the number of jets and how likely these are to contain b-hadrons. A multivariate technique is then used to discriminate between signal and background events. The measured four-top-quark production cross section is found to be 26+17−15 fb, with a corresponding observed (expected) significance of 1.9 (1.0) standard deviations over the background-only hypothesis. The result is combined with the previous measurement performed by the ATLAS Collaboration in the multilepton final state. The combined four-top-quark production cross section is measured to be 24+7−6 fb, with a corresponding observed (expected) signal significance of 4.7 (2.6) standard deviations over the background-only predictions. It is consistent within 2.0 standard deviations with the Standard Model expectation of 12.0 ± 2.4 fb.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Measurement of the tt¯tt¯ production cross section in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1007/jhep11(2021)118 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2021)118 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Top physics |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10139500 |



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