This paper presents single lepton and dilepton kinematic distributions measured in dileptonic tt¯ events produced in 20.2fb- 1of s=8 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Both absolute and normalised differential cross-sections are measured, using events with an opposite-charge eμ pair and one or two b-tagged jets. The cross-sections are measured in a fiducial region corresponding to the detector acceptance for leptons, and are compared to the predictions from a variety of Monte Carlo event generators, as well as fixed-order QCD calculations, exploring the sensitivity of the cross-sections to the gluon parton distribution function. Some of the distributions are also sensitive to the top quark pole mass; a combined fit of NLO fixed-order predictions to all the measured distributions yields a top quark mass value of mtpole=173.2±0.9±0.8±1.2 GeV, where the three uncertainties arise from data statistics, experimental systematics, and theoretical sources.
De Castro, S., Fabbri, L., Gabrielli, A., Rinaldi, L., Semprini Cesari, N., Sioli, M., et al. (2017). Measurement of lepton differential distributions and the top quark mass in tt¯ production in pp collisions at â s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 77(11), 804-1-804-66 [10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5349-9].
Measurement of lepton differential distributions and the top quark mass in tt¯ production in pp collisions at âs=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
De Castro , S.;Fabbri , L.;Gabrielli , A.;Rinaldi , L.;Semprini Cesari , N.;Sioli , M.;Villa , M.;Zoccoli , A.;Bellagamba , L.;Boscherini , D.;Bruni , A.;Bruni , G.;Giacobbe , B.;Polini , A.;Sbarra , C.;Spighi , R.;Franchini , M.;Mengarelli , A.;Romano , M.;Valentinetti , S.;Alberghi , G. L.;Biondi , S.;Fabbri , F.;Lasagni Manghi , F;Massa , L.;Ucchielli , G.;Vittori , C.;
2017
Abstract
This paper presents single lepton and dilepton kinematic distributions measured in dileptonic tt¯ events produced in 20.2fb- 1of s=8 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Both absolute and normalised differential cross-sections are measured, using events with an opposite-charge eμ pair and one or two b-tagged jets. The cross-sections are measured in a fiducial region corresponding to the detector acceptance for leptons, and are compared to the predictions from a variety of Monte Carlo event generators, as well as fixed-order QCD calculations, exploring the sensitivity of the cross-sections to the gluon parton distribution function. Some of the distributions are also sensitive to the top quark pole mass; a combined fit of NLO fixed-order predictions to all the measured distributions yields a top quark mass value of mtpole=173.2±0.9±0.8±1.2 GeV, where the three uncertainties arise from data statistics, experimental systematics, and theoretical sources.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
