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Measurement of the t ¯ t W and t ¯ t Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Measurement of the t ¯ t W and t ¯ t Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Journal of High Energy Physics, No. 11, 172, 24.11.2015.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2015, 'Measurement of the t ¯ t W and t ¯ t Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Journal of High Energy Physics, no. 11, 172. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2015)172

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The ATLAS collaboration (2015). Measurement of the t ¯ t W and t ¯ t Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, (11), Article 172. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2015)172

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The ATLAS collaboration. Measurement of the t ¯ t W and t ¯ t Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015 Nov 24;(11):172. doi: 10.1007/JHEP11(2015)172

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Measurement of the t ¯ t W and t ¯ t Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015 ; No. 11.

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title = "Measurement of the t ¯ t W and t ¯ t Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "The production cross sections of top-quark pairs in association with massive vector bosons have been measured using data from pp collisions at s√=8 TeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector in 2012 at the LHC. Final states with two, three or four leptons are considered. A fit to the data considering the tt¯W and tt¯Z processes simultaneously yields a significance of 5.0σ (4.2σ) over the background-only hypothesis for tt¯W (tt¯Z) production. The measured cross sections are σtt¯W=369+100−91 fb and σtt¯Z=176+58−52 fb. The background-only hypothesis with neither tt¯W nor tt¯Z production is excluded at 7.1σ. All measurements are consistent with next-to-leading-order calculations for the tt¯W and tt¯Z processes.",
author = "Adam Barton and Michael Beattie and Guennadi Borissov and Bouhova-Thacker, {Evelina Vassileva} and William Dearnaley and Harald Fox and Grimm, {Kathryn Ann Tschann} and Henderson, {Robert Charles William} and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Long, {Robin Eamonn} and Love, {Peter Allan} and Harvey Maddocks and Malcolm Skinner and Maria Smizanska and Walder, {James William} and Andy Wharton and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva

AU - Dearnaley, William

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann

AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin Eamonn

AU - Love, Peter Allan

AU - Maddocks, Harvey

AU - Skinner, Malcolm

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Walder, James William

AU - Wharton, Andy

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AB - The production cross sections of top-quark pairs in association with massive vector bosons have been measured using data from pp collisions at s√=8 TeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector in 2012 at the LHC. Final states with two, three or four leptons are considered. A fit to the data considering the tt¯W and tt¯Z processes simultaneously yields a significance of 5.0σ (4.2σ) over the background-only hypothesis for tt¯W (tt¯Z) production. The measured cross sections are σtt¯W=369+100−91 fb and σtt¯Z=176+58−52 fb. The background-only hypothesis with neither tt¯W nor tt¯Z production is excluded at 7.1σ. All measurements are consistent with next-to-leading-order calculations for the tt¯W and tt¯Z processes.

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