@Article{ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2016, author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al and Alvarez Piqueras, D. and Cabrera Urban, S. and Castillo Gimenez, V. and Cerda Alberich, L. and Costa, M. J. and Fernandez Martinez, P. and Ferrer, A. and Fiorini, L. and Fuster, J. and Garcia, C. and Garcia Navarro, J. E. and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. and Hernandez Jimenez, Y. and Higon-Rodriguez, E. and Irles Quiles, A. and Jimenez Pena, J. and Kaci, M. and King, M. and Lacasta, C. and Lacuesta, V. R. and Marti-Garcia, S. and Mitsou, V. A. and Pedraza Lopez, S. and Perez Garcia-Esta{\~A}{\textpm}, M. T. and Romero Adam, E. and Ros, E. and Salt, J. and Sanchez Martinez, V. and Soldevila, U. and Sanchez, J. and Valero, A. and Valls Ferrer, J. A. and Vos, M.", title="Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the lepton plus jets channel in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector", journal="European Physical Journal C", year="2016", publisher="Springer", volume="76", number="10", pages="538 - 39pp", abstract="Measurements of normalized differential cross-sections of top-quark pair production are presented as a function of the top-quark, t (t) over bar system and event-level kinematic observables in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 8 TeV. The observables have been chosen to emphasize the t (t) over bar production process and to be sensitive to effects of initial-and final-state radiation, to the different parton distribution functions, and to non-resonant processes and higher-order corrections. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1), recorded in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in the lepton+jets channel, requiring exactly one charged lepton and at least four jets with at least two of the jets tagged as originating from a b-quark. The measured spectra are corrected for detector effects and are compared to several Monte Carlo simulations. The results are in fair agreement with the predictions over a wide kinematic range. Nevertheless, most generators predict a harder top-quark transverse momentum distribution at high values than what is observed in the data. Predictions beyond NLO accuracy improve the agreement with data at high top-quark transverse momenta. Using the current settings and parton distribution functions, the rapidity distributions are not well modelled by any generator under consideration. However, the level of agreement is improved when more recent sets of parton distribution functions are used.", optnote="WOS:000385168100001", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2998), last updated on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:32:00 +0000", issn="1434-6044", doi="10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4366-4", opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04716", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4366-4", archivePrefix="arXiv", eprint="1511.04716", language="English" }