Measurements of inclusive and differential fiducial cross-sections of tt t\overline{t} production with additional heavy-flavour jets in proton-proton collisions at s \sqrt{s} = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Collaboration
Nov 29, 2018
62 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 04 (2019) 046
  • Published: Apr 4, 2019
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Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2018-276
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Abstract: (Springer)
This paper presents measurements of tt t\overline{t} production in association with additional b-jets in pp collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb1^{−1}. Fiducial cross-section measurements are performed in the dilepton and lepton-plus-jets tt t\overline{t} decay channels. Results are presented at particle level in the form of inclusive cross-sections of tt t\overline{t} final states with three and four b-jets as well as differential cross-sections as a function of global event properties and properties of b-jet pairs. The measured inclusive fiducial cross-sections generally exceed the ttbb t\overline{t}b\overline{b} predictions from various next-to-leading-order matrix element calculations matched to a parton shower but are compatible within the total uncertainties. The experimental uncertainties are smaller than the uncertainties in the predictions. Comparisons of state-of-the-art theoretical predictions with the differential measurements are shown and good agreement with data is found for most of them.
Note:
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • Heavy quark production
  • p p: colliding beams
  • top: pair production
  • Higgs particle: associated production
  • p p: scattering
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • heavy quark: jet
  • jet: bottom
  • bottom: multiple production