Measurement of the ttproduction cross-section using eμ events with b-tagged jets in ppcollisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud; G Aad; B Abbott; J Abdallah; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; R Aben; OS Abou Zeid; NL Abraham; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; R Abreu; Y Abulaiti; BS Acharya; L Adamczyk; DL Adams; J Adelman; S Adomeit; T Adye; AA Affolder; T Agatonovic-Jovin; J Agricola; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; SP Ahlen; F Ahmadov; G Aielli; H Akerstedt; TPA Åkesson; AV Akimov; GL Alberghi; J Albert; S Albrand; MJ Alconada Verzini; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; C Alexa; G Alexander; T Alexopoulos; M Alhroob; B Ali; M Aliev; G Alimonti; J Alison; SP Alkire; BMM Allbrooke; BW Allen; PP Allport; A Aloisio; A Alonso; F Alonso; C Alpigiani; M Alstaty; B Alvarez Gonzalez; D Álvarez Piqueras; MG Alviggi; BT Amadio; K Amako; Y Amaral Coutinho; C Amelung; D Amidei; SP Amordossantos; A Amorim; S Amoroso; G Amundsen; C Anastopoulos; LS Ancu; N Andari; T Andeen; CF Anders; G Anders; JK Anders; KJ Anderson; A Andreazza; V Andrei; S Angelidakis; I Angelozzi; P Anger; A Angerami; F Anghinolfi; AV Anisenkov; N Anjos; A Annovi; C Antel; M Antonelli; A Antonov; F Anulli; M Aoki; L Aperio Bella; G Arabidze; Y Arai; JP Araque; ATH Arce; FA Arduh; JF Arguin; S Argyropoulos; M Arik; AJ Armbruster; LJ Armitage; O Arnaez; H Arnold

Journal article

Measurement of the ttproduction cross-section using eμ events with b-tagged jets in ppcollisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, O Abdinov, B Abeloos, R Aben, OS Abou Zeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, R Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, J Adelman, S Adomeit, T Adye, AA Affolder Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | ELSEVIER | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.019

Abstract

This paper describes a measurement of the inclusive top quark pair production cross-section (σtt̄) with a data sample of 3.2 fb−1of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=13 TeV, collected in 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. This measurement uses events with an opposite-charge electron-muon pair in the final state. Jets containing b-quarks are tagged using an algorithm based on track impact parameters and reconstructed secondary vertices. The numbers of events with exactly one and exactly two b-tagged jets are counted and used to determine simultaneously σtt̄and the efficiency to reconstruct and b-tag a jet from a top quark decay, thereby minimising the associated sy..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Elisabetta Barberio Author

Federico Scutti Author

G. N. Taylor Author

Phillip Urquijo Author

Grants

Awarded by Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)

Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, Canarie, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Region Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.