Articulo
Differential top-antitop cross-section measurements as a function of observables constructed from final-state particles using pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV in the ATLAS detector
Autor
Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
Alonso, Francisco
Anduaga, Xabier Sebastián
Arduh, Francisco Anuar
Dova, María Teresa
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The ATLAS Collaboration
Institución
Resumen
Various differential cross-sections are measured in top-quark pair (t¯t) events
produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7TeV at the LHC
with the ATLAS detector. These differential cross-sections are presented in a data set
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1. The differential cross-sections are
presented in terms of kinematic variables, such as momentum, rapidity and invariant mass,
of a top-quark proxy referred to as the pseudo-top-quark as well as the pseudo-top-quark
pair system. The dependence of the measurement on theoretical models is minimal. The measurements are performed on t¯t events in the lepton+jets channel, requiring
exactly one charged lepton and at least four jets with at least two of them tagged as
originating from a b-quark. The hadronic and leptonic pseudo-top-quarks are defined via
the leptonic or hadronic decay mode of the W boson produced by the top-quark decay
in events with a single charged lepton. Differential cross-section measurements of the
pseudo-top-quark variables are compared with several Monte Carlo models that implement
next-to-leading order or leading-order multi-leg matrix-element calculations. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas