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Probing the Quantum Interference between Singly and Doubly Resonant Top-Quark Production in pp Collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

Aaboud, M ; Åkesson, Torsten LU orcid ; Bocchetta, Simona LU ; Corrigan, Eric LU ; Doglioni, Caterina LU ; Brottmann Hansen, Eva LU ; Hedberg, Vincent LU ; Jarlskog, Göran LU ; Kalderon, Charles LU and Kellermann, Edgar LU , et al. (2018) In Physical Review Letters 121(15).
Abstract
This Letter presents a normalized differential cross-section measurement in a fiducial phase-space region where interference effects between top-quark pair production and associated production of a single top quark with a W boson and a b-quark are significant. Events with exactly two leptons (ee, μμ, or eμ) and two b-tagged jets that satisfy a multiparticle invariant mass requirement are selected from 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data taken at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. The results are compared with predictions from simulations using various strategies for the interference. The standard prescriptions for interference modeling are significantly different from each other but are within 2σ of the... (More)
This Letter presents a normalized differential cross-section measurement in a fiducial phase-space region where interference effects between top-quark pair production and associated production of a single top quark with a W boson and a b-quark are significant. Events with exactly two leptons (ee, μμ, or eμ) and two b-tagged jets that satisfy a multiparticle invariant mass requirement are selected from 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data taken at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. The results are compared with predictions from simulations using various strategies for the interference. The standard prescriptions for interference modeling are significantly different from each other but are within 2σ of the data. State-of-the-art predictions that naturally incorporate interference effects provide the best description of the data in the measured region of phase space most sensitive to these effects. These results provide an important constraint on interference models and will guide future model development and tuning. © 2018 CERN. (Less)
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Bosons, Phase space methods, Differential cross section, Interference effects, Interference modeling, Interference models, Phase space regions, Proton proton collisions, Quantum interference, State of the art, Tellurium compounds
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Physical Review Letters
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121
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15
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152002
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American Physical Society
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  • scopus:85055162370
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1079-7114
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.152002
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English
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  abstract     = {{This Letter presents a normalized differential cross-section measurement in a fiducial phase-space region where interference effects between top-quark pair production and associated production of a single top quark with a W boson and a b-quark are significant. Events with exactly two leptons (ee, μμ, or eμ) and two b-tagged jets that satisfy a multiparticle invariant mass requirement are selected from 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data taken at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. The results are compared with predictions from simulations using various strategies for the interference. The standard prescriptions for interference modeling are significantly different from each other but are within 2σ of the data. State-of-the-art predictions that naturally incorporate interference effects provide the best description of the data in the measured region of phase space most sensitive to these effects. These results provide an important constraint on interference models and will guide future model development and tuning. © 2018 CERN.}},
  author       = {{Aaboud, M and Åkesson, Torsten and Bocchetta, Simona and Corrigan, Eric and Doglioni, Caterina and Brottmann Hansen, Eva and Hedberg, Vincent and Jarlskog, Göran and Kalderon, Charles and Kellermann, Edgar and Konya, Balazs and Lytken, Else and Mankinen, Katja and Mjörnmark, Ulf and Pöttgen, Ruth and Poulsen, Trine and Smirnova, Oxana and Zwalinski, L}},
  issn         = {{1079-7114}},
  keywords     = {{Bosons; Phase space methods; Differential cross section; Interference effects; Interference modeling; Interference models; Phase space regions; Proton proton collisions; Quantum interference; State of the art; Tellurium compounds}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{15}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review Letters}},
  title        = {{Probing the Quantum Interference between Singly and Doubly Resonant Top-Quark Production in pp Collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.152002}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.152002}},
  volume       = {{121}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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