PT Journal
AU ATLAS and CMS Collaborations (Aad, Gea
   Aparisi Pozo, JA
   Bailey, AJ
   Cabrera Urban, S
   Cardillo, F
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Costa, MJ
   Didenko, M
   Escobar, C
   Estrada Pastor, O
   Fiorini, L
   Fullana Torregrosa, E
   Fuster, J
   Garcia, C
   Garcia Navarro, JE
   Gonzalez de la Hoz, S
   Gonzalvo Rodriguez, GR
   Guerrero Rojas, JGR
   Higon-Rodriguez, E
   Lacasta, C
   Lozano Bahilo, JJ
   Mamuzic, J
   Marti-Garcia, S
   Martinez Agullo, P
   Miralles Lopez, M
   Mitsou, VA
   Monsonis Romero, L
   Moreno Llacer, M
   Navarro-Gonzalez, J
   Poveda, J
   Prades Ibañez, A
   Ruiz-Martinez, A
   Sabatini, P
   Salt, J
   Sanchez Sebastian, V
   Sayago Galvan, I
   Soldevila, U
   Sanchez, J
   Torro Pastor, E
   Valero, A
   Valls Ferrer, JA
   Villaplana Perez, M
   Vos, M
TI Combination of inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section measurements using ATLAS and CMS data at √s=7 and 8 TeV
SO Journal of High Energy Physics
JI J. High Energy Phys.
PY 2023
BP 213
EP 64pp
VL 07
IS 7
DI 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)213
LA English
DE Hadron-Hadron Scattering; Top Physics
AB A combination of measurements of the inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section performed by ATLAS and CMS in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8TeV at the LHC is presented. The cross-sections are obtained using top-quark pair decays with an opposite-charge electron-muon pair in the final state and with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 5 fb(-1) at root s = 7 TeV and about 20 fb(-1) at root s = 8TeV for each experiment. The combined cross-sections are determined to be 178.5 +/- 4.7 pb at root s = 7 TeV and 243.3(-5.9)(+6.0) pb at root s = 8TeV with a correlation of 0.41, using a reference top-quark mass value of 172.5 GeV. The ratio of the combined crosssections is determined to be R-8/7 = 1.363 +/- 0.032. The combined measured cross-sections and their ratio agree well with theory calculations using several parton distribution function (PDF) sets. The values of the top-quark pole mass (with the strong coupling fixed at 0.118) and the strong coupling (with the top-quark pole mass fixed at 172.5 GeV) are extracted from the combined results by fitting a next-to-next-to-leading-order plus next-to-next-to-leading-log QCD prediction to the measurements. Using a version of the NNPDF3.1 PDF set containing no top-quark measurements, the results obtained are m(t)(pole) = 173.4(-2.0)(+1.8) GeV and alpha s(m(Z)) = 0.1170(-0.0018)(+0.0021).
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