Measurement of the tt¯W and tt¯Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Abstract

Abstract: The production cross sections of top-quark pairs in association with massive vector bosons have been measured using data from pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector in 2012 at the LHC. Final states with two, three or four leptons are considered. A fit to the data considering the tt¯W and tt¯Z processes simultaneously yields a significance of 5.0σ (4.2σ) over the background-only hypothesis for tt¯W (tt¯Z) production. The measured cross sections are (Formula presented.) fb and (Formula presented.) fb. The background-only hypothesis with neither tt¯W nor tt¯Z production is excluded at 7.1σ. All measurements are consistent with next-to-leading-order calculations for the tt¯W and tt¯Z processes.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number172
Pages (from-to)1-48
Number of pages48
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2015
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2015

Keywords

  • Electroweak interaction
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering
  • Top physics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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