Observation of top-quark pair production in association with a photon and measurement of the tt¯γ production cross section in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

UNSPECIFIED (2015) Observation of top-quark pair production in association with a photon and measurement of the tt¯γ production cross section in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D, 91 (7): 072007. ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

A search is performed for top-quark pairs (tt¯) produced together with a photon (γ) with transverse energy greater than 20 GeV using a sample of tt¯ candidate events in final states with jets, missing transverse momentum, and one isolated electron or muon. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.59  fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In total, 140 and 222 tt¯γ candidate events are observed in the electron and muon channels, to be compared to the expectation of 79±26 and 120±39 non-tt¯γ background events, respectively. The production of tt¯γ events is observed with a significance of 5.3 standard deviations away from the null hypothesis. The tt¯γ production cross section times the branching ratio (BR) of the single-lepton decay channel is measured in a fiducial kinematic region within the ATLAS acceptance. The measured value is σfidtt¯γ×BR=63±8(stat)+17−13(syst)±1(lumi)  fb per lepton flavor, in good agreement with the leading-order theoretical calculation normalized to the next-to-leading-order theoretical prediction of 48±10  fb.

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Journal Article
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Physical Review D
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© 2015 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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74071
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18 Jun 2015 06:01
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