Measurement of the inclusive and fiducial t t production cross-sections in the lepton+jets channel in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. uri icon

abstract

  • The inclusive and fiducial t t production cross-sections are measured in the lepton+jets channel using 20.2 fb - 1 of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Major systematic uncertainties due to the modelling of the jet energy scale and b-tagging efficiency are constrained by separating selected events into three disjoint regions. In order to reduce systematic uncertainties in the most important background, the W +,jets process is modelled using Z +jets events in a data-driven approach. The inclusive t t cross-section is measured with a precision of 5.7% to be inc ( t t ) = 248.3 0.7 ( stat . ) 13.4 ( syst . ) 4.7 ( lumi . ) pb , assuming a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV. The result is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction. The cross-section is also measured in a phase space close to that of the selected data. The fiducial cross-section is fid ( t t ) = 48.8 0.1 ( stat . ) 2.0 ( syst . ) 0.9 ( lumi . ) pb with a precision of 4.5%.

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author list (cited authors)

  • Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., ... ATLAS Collaboration.

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complete list of authors

  • Aaboud, M||Aad, G||Abbott, B||Abdinov, O||Abeloos, B||Abidi, SH||AbouZeid, OS||Abraham, NL||Abramowicz, H||Abreu, H||Abreu, R||Abulaiti, Y||Acharya, BS||Adachi, S||Adamczyk, L||Adelman, J||Adersberger, M||Adye, T||Affolder, AA||Afik, Y||Agatonovic-Jovin, T||Agheorghiesei, C||Aguilar-Saavedra, JA||Ahlen, SP||Ahmadov, F||Aielli, G||Akatsuka, S||Akerstedt, H||Åkesson, TPA||Akilli, E||Akimov, AV||Alberghi, GL||Albert, J||Albicocco, P||Alconada Verzini, MJ||Alderweireldt, SC||Aleksa, M||Aleksandrov, IN||Alexa, C||Alexander, G||Alexopoulos, T||Alhroob, M||Ali, B||Aliev, M||Alimonti, G||Alison, J||Alkire, SP||Allbrooke, BMM||Allen, BW||Allport, PP||Aloisio, A||Alonso, A||Alonso, F||Alpigiani, C||Alshehri, AA||Alstaty, MI||Alvarez Gonzalez, B||Álvarez Piqueras, D||Alviggi, MG||Amadio, BT||Amaral Coutinho, Y||Amelung, C||Amidei, D||Amor Dos Santos, SP||Amoroso, S||Amundsen, G||Anastopoulos, C||Ancu, LS||Andari, N||Andeen, T||Anders, CF||Anders, JK||Anderson, KJ||Andreazza, A||Andrei, V||Angelidakis, S||Angelozzi, I|