Inspire | HepData | arXiv:2209.07874 | ATLAS-TOPQ-2019-01
A measurement of observables sensitive to effects of colour reconnection in top-quark pair-production events is presented using 139 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV proton--proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are selected by requiring exactly one isolated electron and one isolated muon with opposite charge and two or three jets, where exactly two jets are required to be $b$-tagged. For the selected events, measurements are presented for the charged-particle multiplicity, the scalar sum of the transverse momenta of the charged particles, and the same scalar sum in bins of charged-particle multiplicity. These observables are unfolded to the stable-particle level, thereby correcting for migration effects due to finite detector resolution, acceptance and efficiency effects. The particle-level measurements are compared with different colour reconnection models in Monte Carlo generators. These measurements disfavour some of the colour reconnection models and provide inputs to future optimisation of the parameters in Monte Carlo generators.
Inspire | HepData | arXiv:2205.02817 | ATLAS-TOPQ-2018-11
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 ($p_{\rm T}$) greater than 500 GeV. The observed data are unfolded to remove detector effects. The particle-level cross-section, multiplied by the $t\bar{t}\rightarrow WWb\bar{b}$ branching fraction and measured in a fiducial phase space defined by requiring the leading and second-leading jets to have $p_{\rm T}$ > 500 GeV and $p_{\rm T}$ > 350 GeV, respectively, is $331 \pm 3 \rm{(stat.)} \pm 39 \rm{(syst.)}$ fb. This is approximately 20% lower than the prediction of $398^{+48}_{-49}$ fb by POWHEG+PYTHIA8 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 $1.94 \pm 0.02 \rm{(stat.)} \pm 0.25 \rm{(syst.)}$ pb. This agrees with the NNLO prediction of $1.96^{+0.02}_{-0.17}$ 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.
Inspire | HepData | ATLAS-TOPQ-2018-18 | JHEP 01 (2021) 033 | arXiv:2006.09274
Differential cross-sections are measured for top-quark pair production in the all-hadronic decay mode, using proton-proton collision events collected by the ATLAS experiment in which all six decay jets are separately resolved. Absolute and normalised single- and double-differential cross-sections are measured at particle and parton level as a function of various kinematic variables. Emphasis is placed on well-measured observables in fully reconstructed final states, as well as on the study of correlations between the top-quark pair system and additional jet radiation identified in the event. The study is performed using data from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{-1}$. The rapidities of the individual top quarks and of the top-quark pair are well modelled by several independent event generators. Significant mismodelling is observed in the transverse momenta of the leading three jet emissions, while the leading top-quark transverse momentum and top-quark pair transverse momentum are both found to be incompatible with several theoretical predictions
Inspire | HepData | ATLAS-TOPQ-2018-17 | Eur.Phys.J.C 80 (2020) 6, 528
The inclusive top quark pair ($t\bar{t}$) production cross-section $\sigma_{t\bar{t}}$ has been measured in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV, using 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected in 2015-2016 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Using events with an opposite-charge $e\mu$ pair and $b$-tagged jets, the cross-section is measured to be: $\sigma_{t\bar{t}} = 826.4 \pm 3.6$ (stat) $\pm 11.5$ (syst) $\pm 15.7$ (lumi) $\pm 1.9$ (beam) pb, where the uncertainties reflect the limited size of the data sample, experimental and theoretical systematic effects, the integrated luminosity, and the LHC beam energy, giving a total uncertainty of 2.4%. The result is consistent with theoretical QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order. It is used to determine the top quark pole mass via the dependence of the predicted cross-section on $m_t^{\mathrm{pole}}$, giving $m_t^{\mathrm{pole}}=173.1^{+2.0}_{-2.1}$ GeV. It is also combined with measurements at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV and $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV to derive ratios and double ratios of $t\bar{t}$ and $Z$ cross-sections at different energies. The same event sample is used to measure absolute and normalised differential cross-sections as functions of single-lepton and dilepton kinematic variables, and the results are compared with predictions from various Monte Carlo event generators.
Inspire | HepData | ATLAS-TOPQ-2018-15 | arXiv:1908.07305
Single- and double-differential cross-section measurements are presented for the production of top-quark pairs, in the lepton + jets channel at particle and parton level. Two topologies, resolved and boosted, are considered and the results are presented as a function of several kinematic variables characterising the top and the system and jet multiplicities. The study was performed using data from $pp$ collisions at centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb$^{-1}$. Due to the large $t\bar{t}$ cross-section at the LHC, such measurements allow a detailed study of the properties of top-quark production and decay, enabling precision tests of several Monte Carlo generators and fixed-order Standard Model predictions. Overall, there is good agreement between the theoretical predictions and the data.
Inspire | HepData | ATLAS-TOPQ-2017-14 | arXiv:1812.01697
Differential cross-sections for the production of a top-quark pair in association with a photon are measured with proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb^-1, collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The measurements are performed in single-lepton and dilepton final states in a fiducial volume. Events with exactly one photon, one or two leptons, a channel-dependent minimum number of jets, and at least one b-jet are selected. Neural network algorithms are used to separate the signal from the backgrounds. The differential cross-sections are measured as a function of photon transverse momentum, photon absolute pseudorapidity, and angular distance between the photon and its closest lepton in both channels, as well azimuthal opening angle and absolute pseudorapidity difference between the two leptons in the dilepton channel.
Inspire | HepData | ATLAS-TOPQ-2017-12 | submitted to JHEP | arXiv:1811.12113
This paper presents measurements of $t\bar{t}$ production in association with additional $b$-jets in $pp$ collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{-1}$. Fiducial cross-section measurements are performed in the dilepton and lepton-plus-jets $t\bar{t}$ decay channels. Results are presented at particle level in the form of inclusive cross-sections of $t\bar{t}$ final states with three and four $b$-jets as well as differential cross-sections as a function of global event properties and properties of $b$-jet pairs. The measured inclusive fiducial cross-sections generally exceed the $t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ predictions from various next-to-leading-order matrix element calculations matched to a parton shower but are compatible within the total uncertainties. The experimental uncertainties are smaller than the uncertainties in the predictions. Comparisons of state-of-the-art theoretical predictions with the differential measurements are shown and good agreement with data is found for most of them.
Inspire | HepData | ATLAS-TOPQ-2017-01 | Submitted to JHEP | arXiv:1802.06572
Measurements of differential cross sections of top quark pair production in association with jets by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC are presented. The measurements are performed as functions of the top quark transverse momentum, the transverse momentum of the top quark-antitop quark system and the out-of-plane transverse momentum using data from pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 $\text{fb}^{-1}$. The top quark pair events are selected in the lepton (electron or muon) + jets channel. The measured cross sections, which are compared to several predictions, allow a detailed study of top quark production.
Inspire | HepData | ATLAS-TOPQ-2016-09 | doi:10.17182/hepdata.81709.v1 | arXiv:1801.02052
Measurements are made of differential cross-sections of highly boosted pair-produced top quarks as a function of top-quark and $t\bar{t}$ system kinematic observables using proton--proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ 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 $p_\text{T} > 350$ 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 $\chi^2$ values. The cross-section for $t\bar{t}$ production in the fiducial phase-space region is 292$\pm$7 (stat)$\pm$76(syst) fb, to be compared to the theoretical prediction of 384$\pm$36 fb.
Inspire | HepData | ATLAS-TOPQ-2016-01 | JHEP 1711 (2017) 191 | doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2017)1 | arXiv:1708.00727
Measurements of differential cross-sections of top-quark pair production in fiducial phase-spaces are presented as a function of top-quark and $t\bar{t}$ system kinematic observables in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb${}^{-1}$, recorded in 2015 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Events with exactly one electron or muon and at least two jets in the final state are used for the measurement. Two separate selections are applied that each focus on different top-quark momentum regions, referred to as resolved and boosted topologies of the $t\bar{t}$ final state. The measured spectra are corrected for detector effects and are compared to several Monte Carlo simulations by means of calculated $\chi^2$ and $p$-values.
Inspire | HepData | Eur.Phys.J. C77 (2017) no.4, 220 | doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4766-0 | arXiv:1610.09978
Measurements of jet activity in top-quark pair events produced in proton--proton collisions are presented, using 3.2 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are chosen by requiring an opposite-charge $e\mu$ pair and two $b$-tagged jets in the final state. The normalised differential cross-sections of top-quark pair production are presented as functions of additional-jet multiplicity and transverse momentum, $p_\text{T}$. The fraction of signal events that do not contain additional jet activity in a given rapidity region, the gap fraction, is measured as a function of the $p_\text{T}$ threshold for additional jets, and is also presented for different invariant mass regions of the $e\mu b\bar{b}$ system. All measurements are corrected for detector effects and presented as particle-level distributions compared to predictions with different theoretical approaches for QCD radiation. While the kinematics of the jets from top-quark decays are described well, the generators show differing levels of agreement with the measurements of observables that depend on the production of additional jets.
Inspire | HepData | ATLAS-TOPQ-2015-09 | Submitted to PLB | arXiv:1606.02699
This paper describes a measurement of the inclusive top quark pair production cross-section ($\sigma_{t\bar{t}}$) with a data sample of 3.2 fb${}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV, collected in 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. This measurement uses events with an opposite-charge electron-muon pair in the final state. Jets containing $b$-quarks are tagged using an algorithm based on track impact parameters and reconstructed secondary vertices. The numbers of events with exactly one and exactly two $b$-tagged jets are counted and used to determine simultaneously $\sigma_{t\bar{t}}$ and the efficiency to reconstruct and $b$-tag a jet from a top quark decay, thereby minimising the associated systematic uncertainties. The cross-section is measured to be: $\sigma_{t\bar{t}} = 818 \pm 8$ (stat) $\pm 27$ (syst) $\pm 19$ (lumi) $\pm 12$ (beam) pb, where the four uncertainties arise from data statistics, experimental and theoretical systematic effects, the integrated luminosity and the LHC beam energy, giving a total relative uncertainty of 4.4\%. The result is consistent with theoretical QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order. A fiducial measurement corresponding to the experimental acceptance of the leptons is also presented.
Inspire | HepData | Phys.Lett.B 803 (2020) 135285, 2020. | DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135285 | arXiv:1909.05306 | CMS-TOP-18-011
Measurement in the fiducial phase space for $t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ production in the all-jet final state of the top quark pair decays. No explicit lepton veto or decay channel requirements are applied, so one should use inclusive top quark decays. Fiducial phase space is defined as $\geq 8$ jets, of which $\geq 4$ are b jets, with jet $p_\perp > 20 \text{GeV}$ and $|\eta| < 2.4$. Of those jets, at least six are required to have $p_\perp > 30 \text{GeV}$. B jets are defined using ghost-matching of B hadrons with no requirement on hadron $p_\perp$. No requirement is applied on the origin of of the b jets, i.e. the phase space definition is independent from simulated parton content.
Inspire | HepData | J. High Energ. Phys. 149 (2019) | DOI:10.1007/JHEP02(2019)149 | arXiv:1811.06625v2 | CMS-TOP-17-014
Absolute and normalised differential top quark pair production cross sections are measured in the dilepton decay channels. The differential cross sections have been obtained by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016 in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The measurements are performed with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9/fb. The cross sections are measured differentially as a function of the kinematic properties of the top quarks and the tt system at the particle and parton levels, and the top quark decay products at the particle level. The results are compared to Monte Carlo simulations from POWHEG interfaced with the parton shower generators PYTHIA 8 and HERWIG 7 up to NNLO (next-to-next leading order) accuracy.
Inspire | HepData | JHEP 1804 (2018) 060 | DOI:10.1007/JHEP04(2018)060 | arXiv:1708.07638 | https://www.hepdata.net/record/81686 | CMS-TOP-16-007
Abstract: Normalized differential cross sections for top quark pair production are measured in the dilepton ($e^{+}e^{-}$, $\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$, and $\mu^{\mp}e^{\pm}$) decay channels in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV. The measurements are performed with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1$fb^{-1}$ using the CMS detector at the LHC. The cross sections are measured differentially as a function of the kinematic properties of the leptons, jets from bottom quark hadronization, top quarks, and top quark pairs at the particle and parton levels. The results are compared to several Monte Carlo generators that implement calculations up to next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics interfaced with parton showering, and also to fixed-order theoretical calculations of top quark pair production up to next-to-next-to-leading order. Rivet: This analysis is to be run on $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$ Monte Carlo. The particle-level phase space is defined using the following definitions: \begin{description} \item[lepton]: an electron or muon with $p_\text{T}>30\,\text{GeV}$ and $|\eta|<2.4$, dressed within a cone of radius 0.1, \item[jet]: a jet is reconstructed with the anti-$k_t$ algorithm with a radius of 0.4, after removing the neutrinos and dressed leptons, with $p_\text{T]>30\,\text{GeV}$ and $|\eta|<2.4$, \item[b-jet]: a jet that contains a B-hadron. \end{description} A W boson at the particle level is defined by combining a dressed lepton and a neutrino. In each event, a pair of particle-level W bosons is chosen among the possible combinations such that the sum of the absolute values of the invariant mass differences with respect to the W boson mass is minimal. Similarly, a top quark at the particle level is defined by combining a particle-level W boson and a b jet. The combination of a W boson and a b jet with the minimum invariant mass difference from the correct top quark mass is selected.
This is a pure Monte Carlo study for $t\bar{t}$ production.