TY - JOUR
T1 - Combination of inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section measurements using ATLAS and CMS data at s = 7 and 8 TeV
AU - The ATLAS collaboration [email protected]
AU - The CMS collaboration [email protected]
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abbott, D. C.
AU - Abed Abud, A.
AU - Abeling, K.
AU - Abhayasinghe, D. K.
AU - Abidi, S. H.
AU - Aboulhorma, A.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Abusleme Hoffman, A. C.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Achkar, B.
AU - Adam, L.
AU - Adam Bourdarios, C.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adamek, L.
AU - Addepalli, S. V.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adiguzel, A.
AU - Adorni, S.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Afik, Y.
AU - Agapopoulou, C.
AU - Agaras, M. N.
AU - Agarwala, J.
AU - Aggarwal, A.
AU - Agheorghiesei, C.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahmad, A.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Ahmed, W. S.
AU - Ai, X.
AU - Aielli, G.
AU - Aizenberg, I.
AU - Akatsuka, S.
AU - Akbiyik, M.
AU - Åkesson, T. P.A.
AU - Akimov, A. V.
AU - Al Khoury, K.
AU - Cappati, A.
AU - Davignon, O.
AU - Granier de Cassagnac, R.
AU - Nguyen, M.
AU - Ochando, C.
AU - Paganini, P.
AU - Zabi, A.
AU - De Wit, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/7/1
Y1 - 2023/7/1
N2 - A combination of measurements of the inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section performed by ATLAS and CMS in proton–proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV at the LHC is presented. The cross-sections are obtained using top-quark pair decays with an opposite-charge electron–muon pair in the final state and with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 5 fb−1 at s = 7 TeV and about 20 fb−1 at s = 8 TeV for each experiment. The combined cross-sections are determined to be 178.5 ± 4.7 pb at s = 7 TeV and 243.3−5.9+6.0 pb at s = 8 TeV with a correlation of 0.41, using a reference top-quark mass value of 172.5 GeV. The ratio of the combined cross-sections is determined to be R8/7 = 1.363 ± 0.032. The combined measured cross-sections and their ratio agree well with theory calculations using several parton distribution function (PDF) sets. The values of the top-quark pole mass (with the strong coupling fixed at 0.118) and the strong coupling (with the top-quark pole mass fixed at 172.5 GeV) are extracted from the combined results by fitting a next-to-next-to-leading-order plus next-to-next-to-leading-log QCD prediction to the measurements. Using a version of the NNPDF3.1 PDF set containing no top-quark measurements, the results obtained are mtpole=173.4−2.0+1.8 GeV and αsmZ=0.1170−0.0018+0.0021.
AB - A combination of measurements of the inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section performed by ATLAS and CMS in proton–proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV at the LHC is presented. The cross-sections are obtained using top-quark pair decays with an opposite-charge electron–muon pair in the final state and with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 5 fb−1 at s = 7 TeV and about 20 fb−1 at s = 8 TeV for each experiment. The combined cross-sections are determined to be 178.5 ± 4.7 pb at s = 7 TeV and 243.3−5.9+6.0 pb at s = 8 TeV with a correlation of 0.41, using a reference top-quark mass value of 172.5 GeV. The ratio of the combined cross-sections is determined to be R8/7 = 1.363 ± 0.032. The combined measured cross-sections and their ratio agree well with theory calculations using several parton distribution function (PDF) sets. The values of the top-quark pole mass (with the strong coupling fixed at 0.118) and the strong coupling (with the top-quark pole mass fixed at 172.5 GeV) are extracted from the combined results by fitting a next-to-next-to-leading-order plus next-to-next-to-leading-log QCD prediction to the measurements. Using a version of the NNPDF3.1 PDF set containing no top-quark measurements, the results obtained are mtpole=173.4−2.0+1.8 GeV and αsmZ=0.1170−0.0018+0.0021.
KW - Hadron-Hadron Scattering
KW - Top Physics
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)213
DO - 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)213
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85174479199
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2023
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 7
M1 - 213
ER -