Measurement of the $t\bar{t}\gamma$ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ $\mathrm{Te}\mathrm{V}$ with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

The cross section of a top-quark pair produced in association with a photon is measured in proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=8$ $\mathrm{Te}\mathrm{V}$ with $20.2$ fb${}^{-1}$ of data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. The measurement is performed by selecting events that contain a photon with transverse momentum $p_{\mathrm{T}}>15\mathrm{Ge}\mathrm{V}$, an isolated lepton with large transverse momentum, large missing transverse momentum, and at least four jets, where at least one is identified as originating from a $b$-quark. The production cross section is measured in a fiducial region close to the selection requirements. It is found to be $139\pm 7(stat.)\pm 17(syst.)\mathrm{fb}$, in good agreement with the theoretical prediction at next-to-leading order of $151\pm 24$ fb. In addition, differential cross sections in the fiducial region are measured as a function of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the photon.

arXiv comment5 pages, 4 figures, proceedings based on a poster presented at the 10th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Braga, Portugal