PT Journal
AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, Mea
   Alvarez Piqueras, D
   Barranco Navarro, L
   Cabrera Urban, S
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Cerda Alberich, L
   Costa, MJ
   Escobar, C
   Estrada Pastor, O
   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
   Lacasta, C
   Madaffari, D
   Mamuzic, J
   Marti-Garcia, S
   Melini, D
   Mitsou, VA
   Pedraza Lopez, S
   Rodriguez Bosca, S
   Rodriguez Rodriguez, D
   Romero Adam, E
   Salt, J
   Sanchez Martinez, V
   Soldevila, U
   Sanchez, J
   Valero, A
   Valls Ferrer, JA
   Vos, M
TI Measurement of lepton differential distributions and the top quark mass in t-t bar production in pp collisions a root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
SO European Physical Journal C
JI Eur. Phys. J. C
PY 2017
BP 804 - 66pp
VL 77
IS 11
DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5349-9
LA English
AB This paper presents single lepton and dilepton kinematic distributions measured in dileptonic t(t)over-bar events produced in 20.2 fb(-1) of root s = 8 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Both absolute and normalised differential cross-sections are measured, using events with an opposite-charge e μpair and one or two b-tagged jets. The cross-sections are measured in a fiducial region corresponding to the detector acceptance for leptons, and are compared to the predictions from a variety of Monte Carlo event generators, as well as fixed-order QCD calculations, exploring the sensitivity of the cross-sections to the gluon parton distribution function. Some of the distributions are also sensitive to the top quark pole mass; a combined fit of NLO fixed-order predictions to all the measured distributions yields a top quark mass value of m(t)(pole) = 173.2 +/- 0.9 +/- 0.8 +/- 1.2 GeV, where the three uncertainties arise from data statistics, experimental systematics, and theoretical sources.
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