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Akdogan, T.

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A search for $t\bar{t}$ resonances with the ATLAS detector in 2.05 fb -1 of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7~\mathrm{TeV}$

A search for top quark pair resonances in final states containing at least one electron or muon has been performed with the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The search uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.05 fb -1 , which was recorded in 2011 at a proton-proton centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. No evidence for a resonance is found and limits are set on the production cross-section times branching ratio to $t\overline{t}$ for narrow and wide resonances. For narrow Z' bosons, the observed 95 % Bayesian credibility level limits range from 9.3 pb to 0.95 pb for masses in the range of m Z' =500 GeV to mZ' =1300 GeV. The corresponding excluded mass region for a leptophobic topcolour Z' boson (Kaluza-Klein gluon excitation in the Randall-Sundrum model) is m Z' <880 GeV (m gKK <1130 GeV).

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Measurement of τ polarization in W→τν decays with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =7~\mathrm{TeV}$

Here in this paper, a measurement of τ polarization in W→τν decays is presented. It is measured from the energies of the decay products in hadronic τ decays with a single final state charged particle. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 24 pb -1 , were collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2010. The measured value of the τ polarization is P τ = -1.06 ± 0.04 (stat)$+0.05\atop{-0.07}$ (syst), in agreement with the Standard Model prediction, and is consistent with a physically allowed 95 % CL interval [-1,-0.91]. Measurements of τ polarization have not previously been made at hadron colliders.

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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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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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