Göran Jarlskog
Professor emeritus
Measurements of inclusive and differential fiducial cross-sections of tt¯ production with additional heavy-flavour jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Author
Summary, in English
This paper presents measurements of tt¯ production in association with additional b-jets in pp collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb −1 . Fiducial cross-section measurements are performed in the dilepton and lepton-plus-jets tt¯ decay channels. Results are presented at particle level in the form of inclusive cross-sections of tt¯ final states with three and four b-jets as well as differential cross-sections as a function of global event properties and properties of b-jet pairs. The measured inclusive fiducial cross-sections generally exceed the tt¯ bb¯ predictions from various next-to-leading-order matrix element calculations matched to a parton shower but are compatible within the total uncertainties. The experimental uncertainties are smaller than the uncertainties in the predictions. Comparisons of state-of-the-art theoretical predictions with the differential measurements are shown and good agreement with data is found for most of them.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]. © 2019, The Author(s).
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Publication/Series
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
2019
Issue
4
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
- Heavy quark production
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1029-8479