# Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production cross-section and lepton differential distributions in $eμ$ dilepton events from $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Collaboration, ATLAS
(2020) Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production cross-section and lepton differential distributions in $eμ$ dilepton events from $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector. Eur. Phys. J. C, 80. 528 - 528.

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## Abstract

The inclusive top quark pair ($t\bar{t}$) production cross-section $\sigma_{t\bar{t}}$ has been measured in proton$-$proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV, using $36.1$ fb$^{-1}$ of data collected in 2015$-$16 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Using events with an opposite-charge $e\mu$ pair and $b$-tagged jets, the cross-section is measured to be: $$\nonumber \sigma_{t\bar{t}} = 826.4 \pm 3.6\,\mathrm{(stat)}\ \pm 11.5\,\mathrm{(syst)}\ \pm 15.7\,\mathrm{(lumi)}\ \pm 1.9\,\mathrm{(beam)}\,\mathrm{pb},$$ where the uncertainties reflect the limited size of the data sample, experimental and theoretical systematic effects, the integrated luminosity, and the LHC beam energy, giving a total uncertainty of 2.4%. The result is consistent with theoretical QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order. It is used to determine the top quark pole mass via the dependence of the predicted cross-section on $m_t^{\mathrm{pole}}$, giving $m_t^{\mathrm{pole}}=173.1^{+2.0}_{-2.1}$ GeV. It is also combined with measurements at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV and $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV to derive ratios and double ratios of $t\bar{t}$ and $Z$ cross-sections at different energies. The same event sample is used to measure absolute and normalised differential cross-sections as functions of single-lepton and dilepton kinematic variables, and the results compared with predictions from various Monte Carlo event generators.

Item Type: Article 88 pages in total, author list starting on page 72, 22 figures, 24 tables, published version in Eur. Phys. J. C. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2018-17/ hep-ex, hep-ex Symplectic Admin 06 Jul 2020 11:02 13 May 2021 10:47 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7907-9 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7907-9 https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3092127