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Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production cross-section using $e\mu $ events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 and 8  $\,\mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector

dc.contributor.authorATLAS collaboration (2886 authors)
dc.contributor.authorAguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio
dc.contributor.authorAmor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia
dc.contributor.authorAnjos, Nuno
dc.contributor.authorAraque, Juan Pedro
dc.contributor.authorCantrill, Robert
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, João
dc.contributor.authorCastro, Nuno Filipe
dc.contributor.authorConde Muiño, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorDa Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose
dc.contributor.authorDo Valle Wemans, André
dc.contributor.authorFiolhais, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorGalhardo, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Agostinho
dc.contributor.authorGonçalo, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorJorge, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Lourenco
dc.contributor.authorMachado Miguens, Joana
dc.contributor.authorMaio, Amélia
dc.contributor.authorManeira, José
dc.contributor.authorMarques, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorOnofre, António
dc.contributor.authorPalma, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorPedro, Rute
dc.contributor.authorPina, João Antonio
dc.contributor.authorPinto, Belmiro
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Helena
dc.contributor.authorSaraiva, João
dc.contributor.authorSilva, José
dc.contributor.authorTavares Delgado, Ademar
dc.contributor.authorVeloso, Filipe
dc.contributor.authorWolters, Helmut
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-04T03:52:02Z
dc.date.available2019-02-04T03:52:02Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-29
dc.date.updated2019-02-04T03:52:02Z
dc.description.abstractThe inclusive top quark pair ( $t\overline{t}$ ) production cross-section ${\sigma _{t\overline{t}}}$ has been measured in proton–proton collisions at ${\sqrt{s}=7~\mathrm{TeV}}$ and ${\sqrt{s}=8~\mathrm{TeV}}$ with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, using $t\overline{t}$ events with an opposite-charge $e\mu $ pair in the final state. The measurement was performed with the 2011 7 TeV dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6  ${\mathrm{fb}^{-1}}$ and the 2012 8 TeV dataset of 20.3  ${\mathrm{fb}^{-1}}$ . The numbers of events with exactly one and exactly two $b$ -tagged jets were counted and used to simultaneously determine ${\sigma _{t\overline{t}}}$ and the efficiency to reconstruct and $b$ -tag a jet from a top quark decay, thereby minimising the associated systematic uncertainties. The cross-section was measured to be: $\begin{aligned} {\sigma _{t\overline{t}}}&= 182.9\pm 3.1\pm 4.2\pm 3.6\pm 3.3~\mathrm{pb}\ ({\sqrt{s}=7~\mathrm{TeV}})\quad \mathrm{and} \\ {\sigma _{t\overline{t}}}&= 242.4\pm 1.7\pm 5.5\pm 7.5\pm 4.2~\mathrm{pb}\ ({\sqrt{s}=8~\mathrm{TeV}}), \end{aligned}$ 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 ${m}_{t}^\mathrm{pole}$ giving a result of ${m}_{t}^\mathrm{pole}$ $=172.9^{+2.5-2.6}$  GeV. By looking for an excess of $t\overline{t}$ production with respect to the QCD prediction, the results were also used to place limits on the pair-production of supersymmetric top squarks ${\tilde{t}_{1}}$ with masses close to the top quark mass, decaying via ${\tilde{t}_{1}}\rightarrow t{\tilde{\chi }_{1}^{0}}$ to predominantly right-handed top quarks and a light neutralino $\tilde{\chi }_{1}^{0}$ , the lightest supersymmetric particle. Top squarks with masses between the top quark mass and 177 GeV are excluded at the 95 % confidence level.
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewed
dc.identifierEur.Phys.J. C76 (2016) 642; DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4501-2, 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3109-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4501-2, 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3109-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26619
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleMeasurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production cross-section using $e\mu $ events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 and 8  $\,\mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector
dc.typejournal article
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