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Top-quark properties at ATLAS

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-09-10 v1

Abstract

Properties of the top-quark are presented, with emphasis on the most recent ATLAS measurements of the mass and ttˉt\bar{t} spin correlations, obtained with proton-proton collision data collected at the Large Hadron Collider. Normalised differential distributions are used in both cases. For the extraction of the top-quark mass, ttˉ+1t\bar{t}+1-jet single-lepton events are selected from the 20.2 fb1^{-1} 8 TeV dataset, and the unfolded distribution at parton level is compared with theoretical predictions to obtain mtpole=171.11.1+1.2m_t^{\text{pole}} = 171.1^{+1.2}_{-1.1} GeV in the pole-mass scheme and mt(mt)=162.91.6+2.4m_t(m_t) = 162.9^{+2.4}_{-1.6} GeV in the running-mass scheme. For the measurement of spin correlations in ttˉt\bar{t} production, dilepton events are selected using 36.1 fb1^{-1} 13 TeV data. The azimuthal opening angle between the two leptons is measured inclusively and as a function of the invariant mass of the ttˉt\bar{t} system. The observed degree of spin correlation is significantly higher than predicted by the generators used, but agrees well with the prediction of one of the fixed-order calculations.

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@article{arxiv.1908.05502,
  title  = {Top-quark properties at ATLAS},
  author = {Markus Cristinziani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05502},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2019)

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