Measurement of the differential cross-section of highly boosted top quarks as a function of their transverse momentum in √s = 8  TeV proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS detector

The differential cross-section for pair production of top quarks with high transverse momentum is measured in 20.3 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The measurement is performed for t¯t events in the lepton+jets channel. The cross-section is reported as a function...

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Main Authors: Aad, Georges (Author) , Anders, Christoph (Author) , Andrei, George Victor (Author) , Baas, Alessandra Edda (Author) , Brandt, Oleg (Author) , Davygora, Yuriy (Author) , Djuvsland, Julia Isabell (Author) , Dunford, Monica (Author) , Geisler, Manuel Patrice (Author) , Giulini, Maddalena (Author) , Hanke, Paul (Author) , Jongmanns, Jan (Author) , Kluge, Eike-Erik (Author) , Kolb, Mathis (Author) , Kretz, Moritz (Author) , Kugel, Andreas (Author) , Lang, Valerie (Author) , Lisovyi, Mykhailo (Author) , Meier, Karlheinz (Author) , Meyer zu Theenhausen, Hanno (Author) , Narrias Villar, Daniel Isaac (Author) , S̜ahinsoy, Merve (Author) , Schätzel, Sebastian (Author) , Scharf, Veit (Author) , Schmitt, Sebastian (Author) , Schöning, André (Author) , Schultz-Coulon, Hans-Christian (Author) , Sosa Corral, David E. (Author) , Stamen, Rainer (Author) , Starovoitov, Pavel (Author) , Suchek, Stanislav (Author) , Wessels, Martin (Author)
Corporate Author: ATLAS Collaboration (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 26 February 2016
In: Physical review
Year: 2016, Volume: 93, Issue: 3
ISSN:2470-0029
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.032009
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Author Notes:G. Aad et al.* (ATLAS Collaboration)
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Summary:The differential cross-section for pair production of top quarks with high transverse momentum is measured in 20.3 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The measurement is performed for t¯t events in the lepton+jets channel. The cross-section is reported as a function of the hadronically decaying top quark transverse momentum for values above 300 GeV. The hadronically decaying top quark is reconstructed as an anti-kt jet with radius parameter R=1.0 and identified with jet substructure techniques. The observed yield is corrected for detector effects to obtain a cross-section at particle level in a fiducial region close to the event selection. A parton-level cross-section extrapolated to the full phase space is also reported for top quarks with transverse momentum above 300 GeV. The predictions of a majority of next-to-leading-order and leading-order matrix-element Monte Carlo generators are found to agree with the measured cross-sections.
Item Description:*ATLAS Collaboration: G. Aad, C.F. Anders, V. Andrei, A.E. Baas, O. Brandt, Y. Davygora, J.I. Djuvsland, M. Dunford, M.P. Geisler, M. Giulini, P. Hanke. J. Jongmanns, E.-E. Kluge, M. Kolb, M. Kretz, A. Kugel, V.S. Lang, M. Lisovyi, K. Meier, H. Meyer zu Theenhausen, D.I. Narrias Villar, M. Sahinsoy, S. Schaetzel, V. Scharf, S. Schmitt, A. Schoening, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, D. Sosa, R. Stamen, P. Starovoitov, S. Suchek, M. Wessels [und 2842 weitere Personen]
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ISSN:2470-0029
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.032009