A measurement of four-top-quark production using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) is presented. Events are selected if they contain a single lepton (electron or muon) or an opposite-sign lepton pair, in association with multiple jets. The events are categorised according to the number of jets and how likely these are to contain b-hadrons. A multivariate technique is then used to discriminate between signal and background events. The measured four-top-quark production cross section is found to be 26(-15)(+17) fb, with a corresponding observed (expected) significance of 1.9 (1.0) standard deviations over the background-only hypothesis. The result is combined with the previous measurement performed by the ATLAS Collaboration in the multilepton final state. The combined four-top-quark production cross section is measured to be 24(-6)(+7) fb, with a corresponding observed (expected) signal significance of 4.7 (2.6) standard deviations over the background-only predictions. It is consistent within 2.0 standard deviations with the Standard Model expectation of 12.0 +/- 2.4 fb.

Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D.c., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D.k., et al. (2021). Measurement of the t t¯ t t¯ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS(11) [10.1007/JHEP11(2021)118].

Measurement of the t t¯ t t¯ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aielli G.;Camarri P.;Cerrito L.;De Sanctis U.;Di Ciaccio A.;Loffredo S.;
2021-01-01

Abstract

A measurement of four-top-quark production using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) is presented. Events are selected if they contain a single lepton (electron or muon) or an opposite-sign lepton pair, in association with multiple jets. The events are categorised according to the number of jets and how likely these are to contain b-hadrons. A multivariate technique is then used to discriminate between signal and background events. The measured four-top-quark production cross section is found to be 26(-15)(+17) fb, with a corresponding observed (expected) significance of 1.9 (1.0) standard deviations over the background-only hypothesis. The result is combined with the previous measurement performed by the ATLAS Collaboration in the multilepton final state. The combined four-top-quark production cross section is measured to be 24(-6)(+7) fb, with a corresponding observed (expected) signal significance of 4.7 (2.6) standard deviations over the background-only predictions. It is consistent within 2.0 standard deviations with the Standard Model expectation of 12.0 +/- 2.4 fb.
2021
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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D.c., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D.k., et al. (2021). Measurement of the t t¯ t t¯ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS(11) [10.1007/JHEP11(2021)118].
Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abbott, Dc; Abed Abud, A; Abeling, K; Abhayasinghe, Dk; Abidi, Sh; Abramowicz, H; Abreu, H; Abulaiti, Y; Abusleme Hoffman, Ac; Acha...espandi
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