Combination of inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section measurements using ATLAS and CMS data at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 and 8 TeV



Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abed Abud, A, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H
et al (show 5234 more authors) (2023) Combination of inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section measurements using ATLAS and CMS data at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 and 8 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 (7). 213-.

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Abstract

<jats:title>A<jats:sc>bstract</jats:sc> </jats:title><jats:p>A combination of measurements of the inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section performed by ATLAS and CMS in proton–proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV at the LHC is presented. The cross-sections are obtained using top-quark pair decays with an opposite-charge electron–muon pair in the final state and with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 5 fb<jats:sup><jats:italic>−</jats:italic>1</jats:sup> at <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ \sqrt{s} $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msqrt> </mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> = 7 TeV and about 20 fb<jats:sup><jats:italic>−</jats:italic>1</jats:sup> at <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ \sqrt{s} $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msqrt> </mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> = 8 TeV for each experiment. The combined cross-sections are determined to be 178<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>5 ± 4<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>7 pb at <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ \sqrt{s} $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msqrt> </mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> = 7 TeV and <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ {243.3}_{-5.9}^{+6.0} $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>243.3</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>5.9</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>6.0</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> pb at <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ \sqrt{s} $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msqrt> </mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> = 8 TeV with a correlation of 0.41, using a reference top-quark mass value of 172.5 GeV. The ratio of the combined cross-sections is determined to be <jats:italic>R</jats:italic><jats:sub>8<jats:italic>/</jats:italic>7</jats:sub> = 1<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>363 ± 0<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>032. The combined measured cross-sections and their ratio agree well with theory calculations using several parton distribution function (PDF) sets. The values of the top-quark pole mass (with the strong coupling fixed at 0.118) and the strong coupling (with the top-quark pole mass fixed at 172.5 GeV) are extracted from the combined results by fitting a next-to-next-to-leading-order plus next-to-next-to-leading-log QCD prediction to the measurements. Using a version of the NNPDF3.1 PDF set containing no top-quark measurements, the results obtained are <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ {m}_t^{\textrm{pole}}={173.4}_{-2.0}^{+1.8} $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mi>m</mml:mi> <mml:mi>t</mml:mi> <mml:mtext>pole</mml:mtext> </mml:msubsup> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>173.4</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>2.0</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>1.8</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> GeV and <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ {\alpha}_{\textrm{s}}\left({m}_Z\right)={0.1170}_{-0.0018}^{+0.0021} $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mfenced> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>m</mml:mi> <mml:mi>Z</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:mfenced> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>0.1170</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.0018</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.0021</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>.</jats:p>

Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 22 Mar 2024 08:55
Last Modified: 18 Apr 2024 00:54
DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2023)213
Open Access URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP07(2...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3179736