Differential tt¯ cross-section measurements using boosted top quarks in the all-hadronic final state with 139 fb −1 of ATLAS data
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Contributors
- Chair of Experimental Particle Physics
- Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Chair of Particle Physics
- Aix-Marseille Université
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Massachusetts
- University of Göttingen
- Royal Holloway University of London
- Mohammed V University in Rabat
- Tel Aviv University
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- King's College London (KCL)
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules LAPP
- AGH University of Science and Technology
- University of Toronto
- Brandeis University
- Northern Illinois University
- Bogazici University
- Istanbul University
- University of Geneva
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- University of California at Santa Cruz
- Université Paris-Saclay
- Institute for High Energy Physics
- University of Pavia
- Radboud University Nijmegen
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
- TUD Dresden University of Technology
- University College London
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- University of Warwick
Abstract
Measurements of single-, double-, and triple-differential cross-sections are presented for boosted top-quark pair-production in 13 TeV proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The top quarks are observed through their hadronic decay and reconstructed as large-radius jets with the leading jet having transverse momentum (pT) greater than 500 GeV. The observed data are unfolded to remove detector effects. The particle-level cross-section, multiplied by the tt¯ → WWbb¯ branching fraction and measured in a fiducial phase space defined by requiring the leading and second-leading jets to have pT> 500 GeV and pT> 350 GeV, respectively, is 331 ± 3(stat.) ± 39(syst.) fb. This is approximately 20% lower than the prediction of 398−49+48 fb by Powheg+Pythia 8 with next-to-leading-order (NLO) accuracy but consistent within the theoretical uncertainties. Results are also presented at the parton level, where the effects of top-quark decay, parton showering, and hadronization are removed such that they can be compared with fixed-order next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) calculations. The parton-level cross-section, measured in a fiducial phase space similar to that at particle level, is 1.94 ± 0.02(stat.) ± 0.25(syst.) pb. This agrees with the NNLO prediction of 1.96−0.17+0.02 pb. Reasonable agreement with the differential cross-sections is found for most NLO models, while the NNLO calculations are generally in better agreement with the data. The differential cross-sections are interpreted using a Standard Model effective field-theory formalism and limits are set on Wilson coefficients of several four-fermion operators. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 80 |
| Journal | Journal of high energy physics |
| Volume | 2023 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2023 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
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Keywords
- Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Jet Substructure and Boosted Jets, Top Physics