PT Journal AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea Cabrera Urban, S Castillo Gimenez, V Costa, MJ Fernandez Martinez, P Ferrer, A Fiorini, L Fuster, J Garcia, C Garcia Navarro, JE Gonzalez de la Hoz, S Hernandez Jimenez, Y Higon-Rodriguez, E Irles Quiles, A Jimenez Pena, J Kaci, M King, M Lacasta, C Lacuesta, VR Marti-Garcia, S Mitsou, VA Moles-Valls, R Oliver Garcia, E Pedraza Lopez, S Perez Garcia-Estañ, MT Romero Adam, E Ros, E Salt, J Sanchez Martinez, V Soldevila, U Sanchez, J Torro Pastor, E Valero, A Valladolid Gallego, E Valls Ferrer, JA Vos, M TI Measurement of the top pair production cross section in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions using kinematic information in the lepton plus jets final state with ATLAS SO Physical Review D JI Phys. Rev. D PY 2015 BP 112013 EP 25pp VL 91 IS 11 DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.112013 LA English AB A measurement is presented of the (tt) over bar inclusive production cross section in pp collisions at a center-ofmass energy of pffisffiffi root s = 8 TeV using data collected by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement was performed in the lepton + jets final state using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1). The cross section was obtained using a likelihood discriminant fit and b-jet identification was used to improve the signal-to-background ratio. The inclusive (tt) over bar production cross section was measured to be 260 +/- 1(stat)(-23)(+22)(stat) +/- 8(lumi) +/- 4(beam) pb assuming a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV, in good agreement with the theoretical prediction of 253(-15)(+13) pb. The (tt) over bar -> (e, mu) + jets production cross section in the fiducial region determined by the detector acceptance is also reported. ER