Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel

G. Aad; Mogens Dam; Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert; Jørgen Beck Hansen; John Renner Hansen; Peter Henrik Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp; Esben Bryndt Klinkby; Sascha Mehlhase; Björn Stefan Nilsson; Troels Christian Petersen; Stefania Xella; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.083

Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel

G. Aad, Mogens Dam, Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert, Jørgen Beck Hansen, John Renner Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Sascha Mehlhase, Björn Stefan Nilsson, Troels Christian Petersen, Stefania Xella, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen

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Abstract

A measurement of the production cross-section for top quark pairs (tt-) in pp collisions at s=7TeV is presented using data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in the single lepton topology by requiring an electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum and at least three jets. With a data sample of 35 pb ^-1 , two different multivariate methods, one of which uses b-quark jet identification while the other does not, use kinematic variables to obtain cross-section measurements of σtt-=187±11(stat.)-17+18(syst.)±6(lumi.)pb and σtt-=173±17(stat.)-16+18(syst.)±6(lumi.)pb respectively. The two measurements are in agreement with each other and with QCD calculations. The first measurement has a better a priori sensitivity and constitutes the main result of this Letter.

Original language	English
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	711
Issue number	3-4
Pages (from-to)	244-263
ISSN	0370-2693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.083
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2012

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Aad, G., Dam, M., Boelaert, N. M. P., Hansen, J. B., Hansen, J. R., Hansen, P. H., Hansen, J. D., Jørgensen, M. D., Heisterkamp, S. J. F., Klinkby, E. B., Mehlhase, S., Nilsson, B. S., Petersen, T. C., Xella, S., & Løvschall-Jensen, A. E. (2012). Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel. Physics Letters B, 711(3-4), 244-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.083

Aad, G, Dam, M, Boelaert, NMP, Hansen, JB , Hansen, JR , Hansen, PH , Hansen, JD, Jørgensen, MD, Heisterkamp, SJF, Klinkby, EB, Mehlhase, S, Nilsson, BS, Petersen, TC , Xella, S & Løvschall-Jensen, AE 2012, 'Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel', Physics Letters B, vol. 711, no. 3-4, pp. 244-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.083

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Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel

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