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Adragna, P.

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DOE OSTI2012

Measurement of $t\bar{t}$ production with a veto on additional central jet activity in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV using the ATLAS detector

A measurement of the jet activity in $t\bar{t}$ events produced in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented, using 2.05 fb -1 of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The $t\bar{t}$ events are selected in the dilepton decay channel with two identified b-jets from the top quark decays. Events are vetoed if they contain an additional jet with transverse momentum above a threshold in a central rapidity interval. The fraction of events surviving the jet veto is presented as a function of this threshold for four different central rapidity interval definitions. An alternate measurement is also performed, in which events are vetoed if the scalar transverse momentum sum of the additional jets in each rapidity interval is above a threshold. In both measurements, the data are corrected for detector effects and compared to the theoretical models implemented in MC@NLO, Powheg, Alpgen and Sherpa. The experimental uncertainties are often smaller than the spread of theoretical predictions, allowing deviations between data and theory to be observed in some regions of phase space.

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DOE OSTI2012

Measurement of the top quark mass with the template method in the $t\bar{t} \to\mathrm{lepton}+\mathrm{jets}$ channel using ATLAS data

The top quark mass has been measured using the template method in the $t\bar{t} →lepton + jets channel based on data recorded in 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The data were taken at a proton-proton centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 1.04 fb -1 . The analyses in the e + jets and μ + jets decay channels yield consistent results. Here the top quark mass is measured to be m top = 174.5±0.6 stat ±2.3 syst GeV.

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DOE OSTI2012

Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\ \mathrm{TeV}$ using the ATLAS detector

A measurement of the top-antitop production charge asymmetry A C is presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.04 fb -1 of pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are selected with a single lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse momentum and at least four jets of which at least one jet is identified as coming from a b-quark. A kinematic fit is used to reconstruct the tt event topology. After background subtraction, a Bayesian unfolding procedure is performed to correct for acceptance and detector effects. The measured value of A C is A C =-0.019±0.028 (stat.)±0.024 (syst.), consistent with the prediction from the MC@NLO Monte Carlo generator of A C = 0.006±0.002. Measurements of A C in two ranges of invariant mass of the top-antitop pair are also shown.

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DOE OSTI2012

Search for lepton flavour violation in the eμ continuum with the ATLAS detector in $\sqrt{s} = 7~\mbox{TeV}$ pp collisions at the LHC

This paper presents a search for the t-channel exchange of an R-parity violating scalar top quark ($\sim\atop{t}$) in the e ± μ ∓ continuum using 2.1 fb 1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Data are found to be consistent with the expectation from the Standard Model backgrounds. Limits on R-parity-violating couplings at 95 % C.L. are calculated as a function of the scalar top mass (m$_t^-$). The upper limits on the production cross section for pp→eμX, through the t-channel exchange of a scalar top quark, ranges from 170 fb for m$_t^-$ = 95 GeV to 30 fb for m$_t^-$ = 1000 GeV.

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DOE OSTI2012

Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel

A measurement of the production cross-section for top quark pairs ($t\bar{t}$) in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7TeV is presented using data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in the single lepton topology by requiring an electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum and at least three jets. With a data sample of 35 pb -1 , two different multivariate methods, one of which uses b-quark jet identification while the other does not, use kinematic variables to obtain cross-section measurements of σ $t\bar{t}$ = 187±11 (stat.) $+18\atop{-17}$ (syst.) ± 6 (lumi.) pb and σ $t\bar{t}$ =173 ± 17 (stat.) $+18\atop{-16}$ (syst.) ± 6 (lumi.) pb respectively. In conclusion, the two measurements are in agreement with each other and with QCD calculations. The first measurement has a better a priori sensitivity and constitutes the main result of this Letter.

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DOE OSTI2012

Measurement of the polarisation of W bosons produced with large transverse momentum in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mbox{TeV}$ with the ATLAS experiment

This paper describes an analysis of the angular distribution of W→eν and W→μν decays, using data from pp collisions at √s =7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2010, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 35 pb -1 . Using the decay lepton transverse momentum and the missing transverse momentum, the W decay angular distribution projected onto the transverse plane is obtained and analysed in terms of helicity fractions f 0 ,f L and f R over two ranges of W transverse momentum (p$W\atop{T}$): 35 < p$W\atop{T}$ < 50 GeV and p$W\atop{T}$ > 50 GeV. Good agreement is found with theoretical predictions. For p W T > 50 GeV, the values of f 0 and f L -f R , averaged over charge and lepton flavour, are measured to be: f 0 =0.127±0.030±0.108 and f L -f R =0.252±0.017±0.030, where the first uncertainties are statistical, and the second include all systematic effects.

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