Title
Measurement of the tt¯Z and tt¯W cross sections in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Date Issued
29 April 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aaboud M.
Aad G.
Abbott B.
Abbott D.C.
Abdinov O.
Abeloos B.
Abhayasinghe D.K.
Abidi S.H.
Abouzeid O.S.
Abraham N.L.
Abramowicz H.
Abreu H.
Abulaiti Y.
Acharya B.S.
Adachi S.
Adam L.
Adamczyk L.
Adamek L.
Adelman J.
Adersberger M.
Adiguzel A.
Adye T.
Affolder A.A.
Afik Y.
Agheorghiesei C.
Aguilar-Saavedra J.A.
Ahmadov F.
Aielli G.
Akatsuka S.
Åkesson T.P.A.
Akilli E.
Akimov A.V.
Alberghi G.L.
Albert J.
Albicocco P.
Alconada Verzini M.J.
Alderweireldt S.
Aleksa M.
Aleksandrov I.N.
Alexa C.
Alexandre D.
Alexopoulos T.
Alhroob M.
Ali B.
Alimonti G.
Alison J.
Alkire S.P.
Allaire C.
Allbrooke B.M.M.
Allen B.W.
Allport P.P.
Aloisio A.
Alonso A.
Alonso F.
Alpigiani C.
Alshehri A.A.
Alstaty M.I.
Alvarez Gonzalez B.
Álvarez Piqueras D.
Alviggi M.G.
Amadio B.T.
Amaral Coutinho Y.
Ambler A.
Ambroz L.
Amelung C.
Amidei D.
Amor Dos Santos S.P.
Amoroso S.
Amrouche C.S.
An F.
Anastopoulos C.
Ancu L.S.
Andari N.
Andeen T.
Anders C.F.
Anders J.K.
Anderson K.J.
Andreazza A.
Andrei V.
Anelli C.R.
Angelidakis S.
Angelozzi I.
Angerami A.
Anisenkov A.V.
Annovi A.
Antel C.
Anthony M.T.
Antonelli M.
Antrim D.J.A.
Anulli F.
Aoki M.
Aparisi Pozo J.A.
Aperio Bella L.
Arabidze G.
Araque J.P.
Araujo Ferraz V.
Araujo Pereira R.
Arce A.T.H.
Ardell R.E.
Arduh F.A.
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
A measurement of the associated production of a top-quark pair (tt) with a vector boson (W, Z) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented, using 36.1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in channels with two same- or opposite-sign leptons (electrons or muons), three leptons or four leptons, and each channel is further divided into multiple regions to maximize the sensitivity of the measurement. The ttZ and ttW production cross sections are simultaneously measured using a combined fit to all regions. The best-fit values of the production cross sections are σttZ=0.95±0.08stat±0.10syst pb and σttW=0.87±0.13stat±0.14syst pb in agreement with the Standard Model predictions. The measurement of the ttZ cross section is used to set constraints on effective field theory operators which modify the ttZ vertex.
Volume
99
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85072076489
Source
Physical Review D
ISSN of the container
24700010
Sponsor(s)
We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, CRC and Compute Canada, Canada; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d’ Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and GIF, Israel; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref.
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