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Observation of top-quark pair production in association with a photon and measurement of the tt? production cross section in pp collisions at vs = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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posted on 2023-06-08, 21:48 authored by Benedict AllbrookeBenedict Allbrooke, Lily AsquithLily Asquith, Alessandro CerriAlessandro Cerri, C A Chavez Barajas, Antonella De SantoAntonella De Santo, C T Potter, Fabrizio SalvatoreFabrizio Salvatore, I Santoyo Castillo, K Suruliz, Mark SuttonMark Sutton, Iacopo Vivarelli, others (ATLAS collaboration)
A search is performed for top-quark pairs (tt) produced together with a photon (?) with transverse energy greater than 20 GeV using a sample of tt candidate events in final states with jets, missing transverse momentum, and one isolated electron or muon. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.59 fb -1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In total, 140 and 222 tt? candidate events are observed in the electron and muon channels, to be compared to the expectation of 79 +/- 26 and 120 +/- 39 non-tt? background events, respectively. The production of tt? events is observed with a significance of 5.3 standard deviations away from the null hypothesis. The tt? production cross section times the branching ratio (BR) of the single-lepton decay channel is measured in a fiducial kinematic region within the ATLAS acceptance. The measured value is s (fid/tty) × BR = 63 +/- 8(stat) (+17/-13)(syst) +/- 1 lumi fb per lepton flavor, in good agreement with the leading-order theoretical calculation normalized to the next-to-leading-order theoretical prediction of 48 +/- 10 fb.

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Journal

Physical Review D

ISSN

1550-7998

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American Physical Society

Volume

91

Page range

072007

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  • Physics and Astronomy Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2015-07-20

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2015-07-20

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-07-20

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