Measurement of the top quark pair cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using final states with an electron or a muon and a hadronically decaying τ lepton
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Taylor, Frank E.
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A measurement of the cross section of top quark pair production in proton–proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is reported. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.05 fb[superscript −1]. Events with an isolated electron or muon and a τ lepton decaying hadronically are used. In addition, a large missing transverse momentum and two or more energetic jets are required. At least one of the jets must be identified as originating from a b quark. The measured cross section, σ[subscript t [bar over t]] = 186±13 (stat.) ±20 (syst.) ± 7 (lumi.) pb, is in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction.
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2012-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, A.A. Abdelalim, O. Abdinov, B. Abi, et al. “Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Cross Section with ATLAS in Pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV Using Final States with an Electron or a Muon and a Hadronically Decaying τ Lepton.” Physics Letters B 717, no. 1–3 (October 2012): 89–108. © 2012 CERN
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03702693