Inclusive and differential cross-sections for dilepton tt¯ production measured in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Summary, in English

Differential and double-differential distributions of kinematic variables of leptons from decays of top-quark pairs (tt¯) are measured using the full LHC Run 2 data sample collected with the ATLAS detector. The data were collected at a pp collision energy of s = 13 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb −1. The measurements use events containing an oppositely charged eμ pair and b-tagged jets. The results are compared with predictions from several Monte Carlo generators. While no prediction is found to be consistent with all distributions, a better agreement with measurements of the lepton p T distributions is obtained by reweighting the tt¯ sample so as to reproduce the top-quark p T distribution from an NNLO calculation. The inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section is measured as well, both in a fiducial region and in the full phase-space. The total inclusive cross-section is found to be σtt¯=829±1(stat)±13(syst)±8(lumi)±2(beam)pb, where the uncertainties are due to statistics, systematic effects, the integrated luminosity and the beam energy. This is in excellent agreement with the theoretical expectation. [Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2023, The Author(s).

• Author: G. Aad; T.P.A. Åkesson; E.E. Corrigan; C. Doglioni; P.A. Ekman; J. Geisen; V. Hedberg; H. Herde; G. Jarlskog; B. Konya; E. Lytken; J.U. Mjörnmark; R. Poettgen; N.D. Simpson; E. Skorda; O. Smirnova; L. Zwalinski
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2023
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Volume: 2023
• Issue: 7
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2023)141
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Keywords: Hadron-Hadron Scattering; Top Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1029-8479