Measurements of t ¯ t differential cross-sections of highly boosted top quarks decaying to all-hadronic final states in p p collisions at √ s = 13     TeV using the ATLAS detector

Agni Bethani, Ian Connelly, Brian Cox, Cinzia Da Via, Nicholas Dann, Alessandra Forti, Frederick Loebinger, Jiri Masik, Stephen Menary, Francisca Munoz Sanchez, Alexander Oh, Joleen Pater, Yvonne Peters, Andrew Pilkington, Darren Price, Yang Qin, Jacob Rawling, Rhys Roberts, Savanna Shaw, Stephen WattsTerence Wyatt, The ATLAS Collaboration, David Lack, Emily Orgill

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    Abstract

    Measurements are made of differential cross-sections of highly boosted pair-produced top quarks as a function of top-quark and tt. system kinematic observables using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb-1, recorded in 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Events with two large-radius jets in the final state, one with transverse momentum pT>500 GeV and a second with pT>350 GeV, are used for the measurement. The top-quark candidates are separated from the multijet background using jet substructure information and association with a b-tagged jet. The measured spectra are corrected for detector effects to a particle-level fiducial phase space and a parton-level limited phase space, and are compared to several Monte Carlo simulations by means of calculated χ2 values. The cross-section for tt. production in the fiducial phase-space region is 292±7(stat)±71(syst) fb, to be compared to the theoretical prediction of 384±36 fb.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number012003
    JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
    Volume98
    Issue number1
    Early online date25 Jul 2018
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 25 Jul 2018

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