Measurement of the <i>t</i>(<i>t</i>)over-bar production cross section in the tau plus jets channel using the ATLAS detector


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Aad G., Abajyan T., Abbott B., Abdallah J., Abdel Khalek S., Abdelalim A., ...More

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, no.3, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

Abstract

A measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in the final state with a hadronically decaying tau lepton and jets is presented. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, with a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.67 fb(-1). The cross section is measured to be sigma(t (t) over bar) = 194 +/- 18 (stat.) +/- 46 (syst.) pb and is in agreement with other measurements and with the Standard Model prediction.