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

A measurement is presented of the tt¯ inclusive production cross section in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV 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 cor...

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Autores principales: Alconada Verzini, María Josefina, Alonso, Francisco, Anduaga, Xabier Sebastián, Arduh, Francisco Anuar, Dova, María Teresa, Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel, Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo, The ATLAS Collaboration
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Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/86813
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Sumario:A measurement is presented of the tt¯ inclusive production cross section in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV 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<sup>-1</sup>. 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 260 ± 1 (stat)<sup>+22</sup><sub>-23</sub>(stat) ± 8 (lumi) ± 4 (beam) pb assuming a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV, in good agreement with the theoretical prediction of 253<sup>+13</sup><sub>-15</sub> pb. The tt¯→ (e, μ) + jets production cross section in the fiducial region determined by the detector acceptance is also reported.