Measurement of the tt¯Z and tt¯W cross sections in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

0520719 - FZÚ 2020 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Aaboud, M. - Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Chudoba, Jiří - Hejbal, Jiří - Hladík, Ondřej - Jačka, Petr - Jakoubek, Tomáš - Kepka, Oldřich - Kroll, Jiří - Kupčo, Alexander - Lokajíček, Miloš - Lysák, Roman - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Němeček, Stanislav - Penc, Ondřej - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek … Total 2934 authors
Measurement of the tt¯Z and tt¯W cross sections in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Physical Review D. Roč. 99, č. 7 (2019), s. 1-38, č. článku 092004. ISSN 2470-0010. E-ISSN 2470-0029
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ - 90058
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : ATLAS * CERN LHC Coll * effective field theory * channel cross section: measured, * electron * muon * sensitivity * experimental results * 13000 GeV-cms
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 4.833, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access

A measurement of the associated production of a top-quark pair (tt¯) with a vector boson (W, Z) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented, using 36.1  fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in channels with two same- or opposite-sign leptons (electrons or muons), three leptons or four leptons, and each channel is further divided into multiple regions to maximize the sensitivity of the measurement. The tt¯Z and tt¯W production cross sections are simultaneously measured using a combined fit to all regions. The best-fit values of the production cross sections are σtt¯Z=0.95±0.08stat±0.10syst  pb and σtt¯W=0.87±0.13stat±0.14syst  pb in agreement with the Standard Model predictions.

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