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Measurement of the tt¯ production cross-section using eμ events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdallah, J; Khalek, SA; Abdinov, O; Aben, R; Abi, B; ... Zwalinski, L; + view all (2014) Measurement of the tt¯ production cross-section using eμ events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The European Physical Journal C , 74 , Article 3109. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3109-7. Green open access

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The inclusive top quark pair (tt¯tt¯) production cross-section σtt¯σtt¯ has been measured in proton–proton collisions at s√=7 TeVs=7 TeV and s√=8 TeVs=8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, using tt¯tt¯ events with an opposite-charge eμeμ pair in the final state. The measurement was performed with the 2011 7 TeV dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1fb−1 and the 2012 8 TeV dataset of 20.3 fb−1fb−1. The numbers of events with exactly one and exactly two bb-tagged jets were counted and used to simultaneously determine σtt¯σtt¯ and the efficiency to reconstruct and bb-tag a jet from a top quark decay, thereby minimising the associated systematic uncertainties. The cross-section was measured to be: σtt¯σtt¯=182.9±3.1±4.2±3.6±3.3 pb (s√=7 TeV)and=242.4±1.7±5.5±7.5±4.2 pb (s√=8 TeV), σtt¯=182.9±3.1±4.2±3.6±3.3 pb (s=7 TeV)andσtt¯=242.4±1.7±5.5±7.5±4.2 pb (s=8 TeV), where the four uncertainties arise from data statistics, experimental and theoretical systematic effects, knowledge of the integrated luminosity and of the LHC beam energy. The results are consistent with recent theoretical QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order. Fiducial measurements corresponding to the experimental acceptance of the leptons are also reported, together with the ratio of cross-sections measured at the two centre-of-mass energies. The inclusive cross-section results were used to determine the top quark pole mass via the dependence of the theoretically predicted cross-section on mpoletmtpole giving a result of mpoletmtpole=172.9+2.5−2.6=172.9−2.6+2.5 GeV. By looking for an excess of tt¯tt¯ production with respect to the QCD prediction, the results were also used to place limits on the pair-production of supersymmetric top squarks t~1t~1 with masses close to the top quark mass, decaying via t~1→tχ~01t~1→tχ~10 to predominantly right-handed top quarks and a light neutralino χ~01χ~10, the lightest supersymmetric particle. Top squarks with masses between the top quark mass and 177 GeV are excluded at the 95 % confidence level.

Type: Article
Title: Measurement of the tt¯ production cross-section using eμ events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3109-7
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3109-7
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
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/1435913
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