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Measurement of the tt¯ production cross-section in the lepton+jets channel at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

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Article number135797
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>10/11/2020
<mark>Journal</mark>Physics Letters B
Volume810
Number of pages22
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The top anti-top quark production cross-section is measured in the lepton+jets channel using proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Events with exactly one charged lepton and four or more jets in the final state, with at least one jet containing b-hadrons, are used to determine the tt¯  production cross-section through a profile-likelihood fit. The inclusive cross-section is measured to be σinc=830±0.4(stat.)±36(syst.)±14(lumi.)pb with a relative uncertainty of 4.6%. The result is consistent with theoretical calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. The fiducial tt¯  cross-section within the experimental acceptance is also measured.