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Measurement of the tt¯ tt¯ production cross section in pp collisions at s√ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
- Source :
- Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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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+17−15 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+7−6 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. publishedVersion
Details
- ISSN :
- 11266708
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..2128a1f904700f269d9010ef943e7441