Measurement of the tt¯γtt¯γ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at s√=8s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration, Paul Newman (Contributor)

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Abstract

The cross section of a top-quark pair produced in association with a photon is measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=8s=8 TeV with 20.2 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. The measurement is performed by selecting events that contain a photon with transverse momentum pT > 15 GeV, an isolated lepton with large transverse momentum, large missing transverse momentum, and at least four jets, where at least one is identified as originating from a b-quark. The production cross section is measured in a fiducial region close to the selection requirements. It is found to be 139 ± 7 (stat.) ± 17 (syst.) fb, in good agreement with the theoretical prediction at next-to-leading order of 151 ± 24 fb. In addition, differential cross sections in the fiducial region are measured as a function of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the photon.

Original languageEnglish
Article number086
JournalJHEP
Volume11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Nov 2017

Bibliographical note

41 pages in total, author list starting page 25, 4 figures, 3 tables, submitted to JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2015-21/

Keywords

  • hep-ex

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