Fiducial cross-section measurements of top-quark pair production in association with a photon at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

Top-quark pairs in association with final state particles are produced in large quantities at the LHC due to the high centre-of-mass energy available in proton-proton collisions. One such topology is that of a prompt photon radiated from the top quark in addition to the final state particles from the top quark decay. Using 36.1 fb${}^{-1}$ of data collected at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, fiducial cross-section results are shown in the single-lepton and dilepton channels. Object-level and event-level neural networks are used to increase sensitivity.

arXiv commentInternational Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Bad Neuenahr, Germany, September 16-21, 2018