Probing the Quantum Interference between Singly and Doubly Resonant Top-Quark Production in <i>pp</i> Collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector



Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2906 more authors) (2018) Probing the Quantum Interference between Singly and Doubly Resonant Top-Quark Production in <i>pp</i> Collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 121 (15). 152002-.

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Abstract

This Letter presents a normalized differential cross-section measurement in a fiducial phase-space region where interference effects between top-quark pair production and associated production of a single top quark with a W boson and a b-quark are significant. Events with exactly two leptons (ee, μμ, or eμ) and two b-tagged jets that satisfy a multiparticle invariant mass requirement are selected from 36.1  fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data taken at sqrt[s]=13  TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. The results are compared with predictions from simulations using various strategies for the interference. The standard prescriptions for interference modeling are significantly different from each other but are within 2σ of the data. State-of-the-art predictions that naturally incorporate interference effects provide the best description of the data in the measured region of phase space most sensitive to these effects. These results provide an important constraint on interference models and will guide future model development and tuning.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 29 pages in total, author list starting page 13, 2 figures, 1 table, published in PRL. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2017-05/
Uncontrolled Keywords: ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS Collaboration
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2018 15:25
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2023 09:47
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.152002
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.152002
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3026046