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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

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 91, 072007 – Published 28 April 2015

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 4.59fb1 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 σtt¯γfid×BR=63±8(stat)13+17(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±10fb.

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  • Received 3 February 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.072007

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Vol. 91, Iss. 7 — 1 April 2015

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