Measurement of tt production with a veto on additional central jet activity in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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Abstract

A measurement of the jet activity in tt 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 tt 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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2043
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume72
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jun 2012

Funding

FundersFunder number
MECTS
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie
Australian Research Council
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
DIP
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung
National Research Foundation of Korea
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
CEA-DSM
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
GNAS
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Israel Science Foundation
Wallenberg Foundation
Leverhulme Trust
Lundbeckfonden
Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS
National Science Council
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
MSTD
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
MSMT
Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu
MSSR
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
MVZT
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Czech Republic
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
U.S. Department of Energy
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
MES of Russia
State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science
MERYS
DNSRC
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
Cantons of Bern and Geneva
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
VSC CR
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
Royal Society
Sociedad Española de Reumatología
Minerva Foundation
European Research Council
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
IRFU
CERN
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
National Research Council Canada
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilGRIDPP
European CommissionIN2P3-CNRS, 246806
National Science Foundation1119200

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