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Measurement of the top pair production cross section in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions using kinematic information in the lepton + jets final state with ATLAS

  • Atlas Collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • CERN
  • Stockholm University
  • The Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Belgrade
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • University of Bern
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • University of Geneva
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Birmingham
  • Lancaster University
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • University of Copenhagen

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Abstract

A measurement is presented of the (formula presented) inclusive production cross section in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of (formula presented) using data collected by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron pffiffi Collider. The measurement was performed in the lepton + jets final state using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1. The cross section was obtained using a likelihood discriminant fit and b-jet identification was used to improve the signal-to-background ratio. The inclusive tt production cross section was measured to be (formula presented) pb assuming a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV, in good agreement with the theoretical prediction of (formula presented) pb. The (formula presented) production cross section in the fiducial region determined by the detector acceptance is also reported.

Original languageEnglish
Article number112013
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume91
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 24 2015

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