Measurement of the inclusive $t\bar{t}$ production cross section in the lepton+jets channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector using support vector machines

Abstract

A measurement of the top quark pair-production cross section in the lepton+jets decay channel is presented. It is based on 4.6 fb${}^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV $pp$ collision data collected during 2011 by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. A three-class, multidimensional event classifier based on support vector machines is used to differentiate $t\bar{t}$ events from backgrounds. The $t\bar{t}$ production cross section is found to be ${\sigma }_{t\bar{t}}=168.5\pm 0.7$(stat.)${}_{-5.9}^{+6.2}$(syst.)${}_{-3.2}^{+3.4}$(lumi.) pb. The result is consistent with the Standard Model prediction based on QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order.

50 pages in total, author list starting at page 33, 7 figures in paper, 4 tables, published in Phys. Rev. D, figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2017-08/

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