Measurements of inclusive and differential cross-sections of tt̅γ production in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Authors
  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • G. Aad
  • M.Z. Barel
  • L. Brenner
Publication date 10-2024
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Article number 191
Volume | Issue number 2024 | 10
Number of pages 77
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract
Inclusive and differential cross-sections are measured at particle level for the associated production of a top quark pair and a photon (tt̅γ). The analysis is performed using an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector. The measurements are performed in the single-lepton and dilepton top quark pair decay channels focusing on tt̅γ topologies where the photon is radiated from an initial-state parton or one of the top quarks. The absolute and normalised differential cross-sections are measured for several variables characterising the photon, lepton and jet kinematics as well as the angular separation between those objects. The observables are found to be in good agreement with the Monte Carlo predictions. The photon transverse momentum differential distribution is used to set limits on effective field theory parameters related to the electroweak dipole moments of the top quark. The combined limits using the photon and the Z boson transverse momentum measured in tt-production in associations with a Z boson are also set.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)191
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