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

The ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2043-9

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

The ATLAS Collaboration

European Organization for Nuclear Research
University of Freiburg
University of Oklahoma
The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
Section de Physique
University of Geneva
University of Oxford
Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences
Oklahoma State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
Universite Paris-Saclay
Sezione INFN di Milano
University of Milano
Sezione di Roma
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Agh University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science
Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics Department
Department of Physics
Hampton University
Yale University
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
Universität München
School of Physics and Astronomy
Queen Mary University of London
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Department of Physics
Brandeis University
Lisboa
Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE
University of Granada
Johannes Gutenberg University
Boston University
Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry
Stony Brook University
Physics Department
University of Texas
INFN Roma Tor Vergata
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Department of Physics
Bogazici University
Department of Physics
Lund University
International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics
University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kobe University
State University of New York Albany
Department of Physics
Royal Holloway University of London
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Victoria
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Physics Department
National Technical University of Athens
Dipartimento di Chimica
and Physics University of Udine

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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 language	English
Article number	2043
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	72
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2043-9
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2012
Externally published	Yes

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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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