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Measurements of top-quark pair differential and double-differential cross-sections in the ℓ +jets channel with pp collisions at √s=13 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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Article number1028
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>24/12/2019
<mark>Journal</mark>European Physical Journal D
Issue number12
Volume79
Number of pages84
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Single- and double-differential cross-section measurements are presented for the production of top-quark pairs, in the lepton + jets channel at particle and parton level. Two topologies, resolved and boosted, are considered and the results are presented as a function of several kinematic variables characterising the top and tt¯ system and jet multiplicities. The study was performed using data from pp collisions at centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb−1. Due to the large tt¯ cross-section at the LHC, such measurements allow a detailed study of the properties of top-quark production and decay, enabling precision tests of several Monte Carlo generators and fixed-order Standard Model predictions. Overall, there is good agreement between the theoretical predictions and the data.