Top Quark Pair Production

Top Quark Pair Production
Author: Anna Christine Henrichs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2013-10-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319014870

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Before any kind of new physics discovery could be made at the LHC, a precise understanding and measurement of the Standard Model of particle physics' processes was necessary. The book provides an introduction to top quark production in the context of the Standard Model and presents two such precise measurements of the production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV that were observed with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC. The presented measurements focus on events with one charged lepton, missing transverse energy and jets. Using novel and advanced analysis techniques as well as a good understanding of the detector, they constitute the most precise measurements of the quantity at that time.

Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section and an In-situ B-tagging Efficiency Calibration with ATLAS in Pp Collisions at √s

Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section and an In-situ B-tagging Efficiency Calibration with ATLAS in Pp Collisions at √s
Author: Bin Guo
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Release: 2012
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We present a measurement of the top anti-top quark (ttbar)production cross section in the dilepton final states from proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy at 7 TeV at the LHC. A b-tagging algorithm based on tracks displaced from the event interaction vertex is applied to identify bottom quark jets from top quark decay and reject background events. Given the relatively pure sample of bottom quark jets in ttbar dilepton final states, a new technique to measure in-situ the b-tagging efficiency is introduced that uses the distribution of the number of observed b-tagged jets. We present results with data collected at the ATLAS detector in 2010 with an integrated luminosity of 35 pb-1. The measured ttbar cross section is 176 +22/-21 (stat.) ± 20 (syst.) ± 6 (lum.) pb in the dilepton channel. We will also discuss the future prospects of this measurement.

Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in Proton-proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}

Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in Proton-proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}
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Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015
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The top quark pair production cross section is measured for the first time in proton-proton collisions at √s= 13 TeV by theCMS experiment at the CERN LHC, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 42 pb-1. The measurement is performed by analyzing events with at least one electron and one muon of opposite charge, and at least two jets. We then measured the cross section and found that was 769 ± 60 (stat) ± 55 (syst) ± 92 (lumi) pb, in agreement with the expectation from the standard model.

Measurement of the Production Cross-section of a Single Top Quark in Association with a W Boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment

Measurement of the Production Cross-section of a Single Top Quark in Association with a W Boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment
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Total Pages: 48
Release: 2016
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The cross-section for the production of a single top quark in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 is measured. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1, collected by the ATLAS detector in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Events containing two leptons and one central b-jet are selected. The Wt signal is separated from the backgrounds using boosted decision trees, each of which combines a number of discriminating variables into one classifier. Production of Wt events is observed with a significance of 7.7[sigma]. The cross-section is extracted in a profile likelihood fit to the classifier output distributions. The Wt cross-section, inclusive of decay modes, is measured to be 23.0±1.3(stat.)-3.5+3.2(syst.)±1.1(lumi.) pb. The measured cross-section is used to extract a value for the CKM matrix element.