TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of ttbar production with a veto on additional central jet activity in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Boelaert, Nele Maria Philomena
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Hansen, John Renner
AU - Heisterkamp, Simon Johann Franz
AU - Jørgensen, Morten Dam
AU - Klinkby, Esben Bryndt
AU - Mehlhase, Sascha
AU - Nilsson, Björn Stefan
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Løvschall-Jensen, Ask Emil
AU - Xella, Stefania
PY - 2012/6/21
Y1 - 2012/6/21
N2 - A measurement of the jet activity in tt events produced in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented, using 2.05 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The tt events are selected in the dilepton decay channel with two identified b-jets from the top quark decays. Events are vetoed if they contain an additional jet with transverse momentum above a threshold in a central rapidity interval. The fraction of events surviving the jet veto is presented as a function of this threshold for four different central rapidity interval definitions. An alternate measurement is also performed, in which events are vetoed if the scalar transverse momentum sum of the additional jets in each rapidity interval is above a threshold. In both measurements, the data are corrected for detector effects and compared to the theoretical models implemented in MC@NLO, POWHEG, ALPGEN and SHERPA. The experimental uncertainties are often smaller than the spread of theoretical predictions, allowing deviations between data and theory to be observed in some regions of phase space.
AB - A measurement of the jet activity in tt events produced in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented, using 2.05 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The tt events are selected in the dilepton decay channel with two identified b-jets from the top quark decays. Events are vetoed if they contain an additional jet with transverse momentum above a threshold in a central rapidity interval. The fraction of events surviving the jet veto is presented as a function of this threshold for four different central rapidity interval definitions. An alternate measurement is also performed, in which events are vetoed if the scalar transverse momentum sum of the additional jets in each rapidity interval is above a threshold. In both measurements, the data are corrected for detector effects and compared to the theoretical models implemented in MC@NLO, POWHEG, ALPGEN and SHERPA. The experimental uncertainties are often smaller than the spread of theoretical predictions, allowing deviations between data and theory to be observed in some regions of phase space.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2043-9
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2043-9
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 72
SP - 2043
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
ER -