Fiducial, total and differential cross-section measurements of $t$-channel single top-quark production in $pp$ collisions at 8 TeV using data collected by the ATLAS detector

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2017

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Fiducial, total and differential cross-section measurements of $t$-channel single top-quark production in $pp$ collisions at 8 TeV using data collected by the ATLAS detector / M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, B. Abeloos, O. Abouzeid, N. Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B..S. Acharya, S. Adachi, L. Adamczyk, D. Adams, J. Adelman, S. Adomeit, T. Adye, T. Affolder, T. Agatonovic-Jovin, J..A. Aguilar-Saavedra, S. Ahlen, F. Ahmadov, G. Aielli, H. Akerstedt, T..P..A. Åkesson, A. Akimov, G..L. Alberghi, J. Albert, S. Albrand, M..J. Alconada Verzini, M. Aleksa, I. Aleksandrov, C. Alexa, G. Alexander, T. Alexopoulos, M. Alhroob, B. Ali, M. Aliev, G. Alimonti, J. Alison, S..P. Alkire, B. Allbrooke, B..W. Allen, P. Allport, A. Aloisio, A. A., F. Alonso, C. Alpigiani, A..A. Alshehri, M. Alstaty, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, D. Άlvarez Piqueras, M. Alviggi, B..T. Amadio, Y. Amaral Coutinho, C. Amelung, D. Amidei, S..P. Amor Dos Santos, A. Amorim, S. Amoroso, G. Amundsen, C. Anastopoulos, L..S. Ancu, N. Andari, T. Andeen, C..F. Anders, J..K. Anders, K. Anderson, A. Andreazza, G..V. Andrei, S. Angelidakis, I. Angelozzi, A. Angerami, F. Anghinolfi, A. Anisenkov, N. Anjos, A. Annovi, C. Antel, M. Antonelli, A. Antonov, D..J. Antrim, F. Anulli, M. Aoki, L. Aperio Bella, G. Arabidze, Y. Arai, J..P. Araque, A. Arce, F..A. Arduh, J. Arguin, S. Argyropoulos, M. Arik, A..J. Armbruster, L..J. Armitage, O. Arnaez, H. Arnold, M. Arratia, O. Arslan, A. Artamonov, G. Artoni, S. Artz, S. Asai, N. Asbah, A. Ashkenazi, B. Åsman, L. Asquith, K. Assamagan, R. Astalos, M. Atkinson, N..B. Atlay, K. Augsten, G. Avolio, B. Axen, M..K. Ayoub, G. Azuelos, M. Baak, A. Baas, M..J. Baca, H. Bachacou, K. Bachas, M. Backes, M. Backhaus, P. Bagiacchi, P. Bagnaia, Y. Bai, J. Baines, M. Bajic, O..K. Baker, E. Baldin, P. Balek, T. Balestri, F. Balli, W..K. Balunas, E. Banas, S. Banerjee, A..A..E. Bannoura, L. Barak, E..L. Barberio, D. Barberis, M. Barbero, T. Barillari, M. Barisits, T. Barklow, N. Barlow, S..L. Barnes, B. Barnett, M. Barnett, Z. Barnovska-Blenessy, A. Baroncelli, G. Barone, A. Barr, L. Barranco Navarro, F. Barreiro, J. Barreiro Guimarães da Costa, R. Bartoldus, A..E. Barton, P. Bartos, A. Basalaev, A. Bassalat, R. Bates, S..J. Batista, R. Batley, M. Battaglia, M. Bauce, F. Bauer, H..S. Bawa, J. Beacham, M..D. Beattie, T. Beau, P. Beauchemin, P. Bechtle, H. Beck, K. Becker, M. Becker, M. Beckingham, C. Becot, A. Beddall, A. Beddall, V. Bednyakov, M. Bedognetti, C. Bee, L. Beemster, T. Beermann, M. Begel, J..K. Behr, A..S. Bell, G. Bella, L. Bellagamba, A. Bellerive, M. Bellomo, K. Belotskiy, O. Beltramello, N. Belyaev, O. Benary, D. Benchekroun, M. Bender, K. Bendtz, N. Benekos, Y. Benhammou, E. Benhar Noccioli, J. Benitez, D. Benjamin, J. Bensinger, S. Bentvelsen, L. Beresford, M. Beretta, D. Berge, E. Bergeaas Kuutmann, N. Berger, J. Beringer, S. Berlendis, N..R. Bernard, C. Bernius, F..U. Bernlochner, T. Berry, P. Berta, C. Bertella, G. Bertoli, F. Bertolucci, I..A. Bertram, C. Bertsche, D. Bertsche, G. Besjes, O. Bessidskaia Bylund, M..F. Bessner, N. Besson, C. Betancourt, A. Bethani, S. Bethke, A..J. Bevan, R. Bianchi, M. Bianco, O. Biebel, D. Biedermann, R. Bielski, N..V. Biesuz, M. Biglietti, J. Bilbao De Mendizabal, T..R..V. Billoud, H. Bilokon, M. Bindi, A. Bingul, C. Bini, S. Biondi, T. Bisanz, D..M. Bjergaard, C. Black, J. Black, K. Black, D. Blackburn, R. Blair, T. Blazek, I. Bloch, C. Blocker, A. Blue, W. Blum, U. Blumenschein, S. Blunier, G. Bobbink, V. Bobrovnikov, S..S. Bocchetta, A. Bocci, C. Bock, M. Boehler, D. Boerner, J..A. Bogaerts, D. Bogavac, A. Bogdanchikov, C. Bohm, V. Boisvert, P. Bokan, T. Bold, A. Boldyrev, M. Bomben, M. Bona, M. Boonekamp, A. Borisov, G. Borissov, J. Bortfeldt, D. Bortoletto, V. Bortolotto, K. Bos, D. Boscherini, M. Bosman, J..D. Bossio Sola, J. Boudreau, J. Bouffard, E..V. Bouhova-Thacker, D..E. Boumediene, C. Bourdarios, S.

Abstract:

Detailed measurements of t-channel single top-quark production are presented. They use 20.2 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected by the ATLAS experiment in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV at the LHC. Total, fiducial and differential cross-sections are measured for both top-quark and top-antiquark production. The fiducial cross-section is measured with a precision of 5.8% (top quark) and 7.8% (top antiquark), respectively. The total cross-sections are measured to be $\sigma _{\text {tot}} (tq) = 56.7^{+4.3-3.8}\,\mathrm{pb}$ for top-quark production and $\sigma _{\text {tot}} (\bar{t} q) = 32.9^{+3.0-2.7}\,\mathrm{pb}$ for top-antiquark production, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction. In addition, the ratio of top-quark to top-antiquark production cross-sections is determined to be $R_t=1.72 \pm 0.09$ . The differential cross-sections as a function of the transverse momentum and rapidity of both the top quark and the top antiquark are measured at both the parton and particle levels. The transverse momentum and rapidity differential cross-sections of the accompanying jet from the t-channel scattering are measured at particle level. All measurements are compared to various Monte Carlo predictions as well as to fixed-order QCD calculations where available.

Tipologia IRIS:

01 - Articolo su periodico

Keywords:

p p: scattering; p p: colliding beams; top: single production; differential cross section: measured; rapidity dependence; channel cross section: measured; transverse momentum dependence; ATLAS; quantum chromodynamics; total cross section: measured; CERN LHC Coll; numerical calculations: Monte Carlo; parton; experimental results; 8000 GeV-cms; parton distributions; hadron colliders; LHC

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