Aug 4 – 8, 2015
America/Detroit timezone

Measurement of the production cross sections of top quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aug 5, 2015, 4:25 PM
25m
West Partition (Alumni Center)

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Speaker

Chen Zhou (Duke University (US))

Description

We present a measurement of the production cross sections of top quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson. The measurement uses 20.3 $fb^{-1}$ of data from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at CERN. Four different final states are considered: two opposite-sign leptons, two same-sign leptons, three leptons, and four leptons. We report the $t\bar{t}+Z$ and $t\bar{t}+W$ signal strength with respect to the Standard Model prediction, as well as the corresponding signal significance.
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Primary author

Chen Zhou (Duke University (US))

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