TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of lepton differential distributions and the top quark mass in tt¯ production in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - The ATLAS Collaboration
AU - Aaboud, M.
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abeloos, B.
AU - Abidi, S. H.
AU - AbouZeid, O. S.
AU - Abraham, N. L.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abreu, R.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Adachi, S.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adersberger, M.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Afik, Y.
AU - Agatonovic-Jovin, T.
AU - Agheorghiesei, C.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahlen, S. P.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Aielli, G.
AU - Akatsuka, S.
AU - Akerstedt, H.
AU - Åkesson, T. P.A.
AU - Akilli, E.
AU - Akimov, A. V.
AU - Alberghi, G. L.
AU - Albert, J.
AU - Albicocco, P.
AU - Alconada Verzini, M. J.
AU - Alderweireldt, S. C.
AU - Aleksa, M.
AU - Aleksandrov, I. N.
AU - Alexa, C.
AU - Alexander, G.
AU - Alexopoulos, T.
AU - Alhroob, M.
AU - Ali, B.
AU - Aliev, M.
AU - Alimonti, G.
AU - Alison, J.
AU - Alkire, S. P.
AU - Allbrooke, B. M.M.
AU - Allen, B. W.
AU - Sakurai, Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
edge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIEN-CIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; SRNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wal-lenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, ERDF, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d’Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Région Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. [140].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - This paper presents single lepton and dilepton kinematic distributions measured in dileptonic tt¯ events produced in 20.2fb - 1 of s=8 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Both absolute and normalised differential cross-sections are measured, using events with an opposite-charge eμ pair and one or two b-tagged jets. The cross-sections are measured in a fiducial region corresponding to the detector acceptance for leptons, and are compared to the predictions from a variety of Monte Carlo event generators, as well as fixed-order QCD calculations, exploring the sensitivity of the cross-sections to the gluon parton distribution function. Some of the distributions are also sensitive to the top quark pole mass; a combined fit of NLO fixed-order predictions to all the measured distributions yields a top quark mass value of mtpole=173.2±0.9±0.8±1.2 GeV, where the three uncertainties arise from data statistics, experimental systematics, and theoretical sources.
AB - This paper presents single lepton and dilepton kinematic distributions measured in dileptonic tt¯ events produced in 20.2fb - 1 of s=8 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Both absolute and normalised differential cross-sections are measured, using events with an opposite-charge eμ pair and one or two b-tagged jets. The cross-sections are measured in a fiducial region corresponding to the detector acceptance for leptons, and are compared to the predictions from a variety of Monte Carlo event generators, as well as fixed-order QCD calculations, exploring the sensitivity of the cross-sections to the gluon parton distribution function. Some of the distributions are also sensitive to the top quark pole mass; a combined fit of NLO fixed-order predictions to all the measured distributions yields a top quark mass value of mtpole=173.2±0.9±0.8±1.2 GeV, where the three uncertainties arise from data statistics, experimental systematics, and theoretical sources.
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U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5349-9
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5349-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85036663423
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 77
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 11
M1 - 804
ER -