PT Journal AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, Mea Alvarez Piqueras, D Barranco Navarro, L Cabrera Urban, S Castillo Gimenez, V Cerda Alberich, L Costa, MJ Fernandez Martinez, P Ferrer, A Fiorini, L Fuster, J Garcia, C Garcia Navarro, JE Gonzalez de la Hoz, S Higon-Rodriguez, E Jimenez Pena, J King, M Lacasta, C Mamuzic, J Marti-Garcia, S Melini, D Mitsou, VA Pedraza Lopez, S Rodriguez Rodriguez, D Romero Adam, E Ros, E Salt, J Sanchez Martinez, V Soldevila, U Sanchez, J Valero, A Valls Ferrer, JA Vos, M TI Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in the tau plus jets final state in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector SO Physical Review D JI Phys. Rev. D PY 2017 BP 072003 EP 26pp VL 95 IS 7 DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.072003 LA English AB A measurement of the inclusive pp -> t (t) over bar + X production cross section in the tau + jets final state using only the hadronic decays of the tau lepton is presented. The measurement is performed using 20.2 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of root s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The cross section is measured via a counting experiment by imposing a set of selection criteria on the identification and kinematic variables of the reconstructed particles and jets, and on event kinematic variables and characteristics. The production cross section is measured to be sigma(t (t) over bar) = 239 +/- 29 pb, which is in agreement with the measurements in other final states and the theoretical predictions at this center-of-mass energy. ER