Articulo
Measurements of normalized differential cross sections for t͞t production in pp collisions at √(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
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issn:1550-7998
issn:1550-2368
Autor
Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
Alonso, Francisco
Anduaga, Xabier Sebastián
Dova, María Teresa
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Tripiana, Martín Fernando
The ATLAS Collaboration
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Resumen
Measurements of normalized differential cross sections for top-quark pair production are presented as a function of the top-quark transverse momentum, and of the mass, transverse momentum, and rapidity of the t͞t system, in proton proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb⁻¹, recorded in 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in the lepton + jets channel, requiring exactly one lepton and at least four jets with at least one of the jets tagged as originating from a b-quark. The measured spectra are corrected for detector efficiency and resolution effects and are compared to several Monte Carlo simulations and theory calculations. The results are in fair agreement with the predictions in a wide kinematic range. Nevertheless, data distributions are softer than predicted for higher values of the mass of the t͞t system and of the top-quark transverse momentum. The measurements can also discriminate among different sets of parton distribution functions. La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Instituto de Física La Plata