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

2015
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Aad, G.
Agatonović-Jovin, Tatjana

Bozic, I.
Dimitrievska, A.
Krstić, Jelena
Mamužić, Judita

Marjanovic, M.
Popovic, D. S.
Sijacki, Dj.
Simic, Lj.
Vranjes, N.

Vranješ Milosavljević, Marija

Zivkovic, L.
ATLAS Collaboration (ukupan broj autora: 2829)
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A measurement is presented of the (tt) over bar inclusive production cross section in pp collisions at a center-ofmass energy of pffisffiffi root s = 8 TeV using data collected by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron 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) over bar production cross section was measured to be 260 +/- 1(stat)(-23)(+22)(stat) +/- 8(lumi) +/- 4(beam) pb assuming a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV, in good agreement with the theoretical prediction of 253(-15)(+13) pb. The (tt) over bar - GT (e, mu) + jets production cross section in the fiducial region determined by the detector acceptance is also reported.
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Physical Review D, 2015, 91, 11Projects:
- ANPCyT, Argentina, YerPhI, Armenia, ARC, Australia, BMWFW, Austria, FWF, Austria, ANAS, Azerbaijan, SSTC, Belarus, CNPq, Brazil, FAPESP, Brazil, NSERC, Canada, NRC, Canada, CFI, Canada, CERN, CONICYT, Chile, CAS, China, MOST, China, NSFC, China, OLCIENCIAS, Colombia, MSMT CR, Czech Republic, MPO CR, Czech Republic, VSC CR, Czech Republic, DNRF, Denmark, DNSRC, Denmark, Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark, EPLANET, European Union, ERC, European Union, NSRF, European Union, IN2P3-CNRS, France, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France, GNSF, Georgia, BMBF, Germany, DFG, Germany, HGF, Germany, MPG, Germany, AvH Foundation, Germany, GSRT, Greece, NSRF, Greece, RGC, China, Hong Kong SAR, China, ISF, Israel, MINERVA, Israel, IGF, Israel, I-CORE, Israel, Benoziyo Center, Israel, INFN, Italy, MEXT, Japan, JSPS, Japan, CNRST, Morocco, FOM, Netherlands, NWO, Netherlands, BRF, Norway, RCN, Norway, MNiSW, Poland, NCN, Poland, GRICES, Portugal, FCT, Portugal, MNE/IFA, Romania, MES of Russia, Russian Federation, NRC KI, Russian Federation, JINR, MSTD, Serbia, MSSR, Slovakia, ARRS, Slovenia, MIZS, Slovenia, DST/NRF, South Africa, MINECO, Spain, SRC, Sweden, Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden, SER, Switzerland, SNSF, Switzerland, Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland, NSC, Taiwan, TAEK, Turkey, STFC, United Kingdom, Royal Society, United Kingdom, Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom, DOE, United States of America, NSF, United States of America, ICREA
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.112013
ISSN: 1550-7998; 1550-2368