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Top Quark Pair Production at LHC and Tevatron PDF
Top Quark Pair Production at LHC and Tevatron PDF
Overview
Top pair production
Pair production as test of perturbative QCD
Top decay Cross section measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron Cross section measurements with the ATLAS detector at the LHC Conclusions
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Top Production
Top Decay
Top lifetime is t~10-24 s No top hadrons or bound states. (tWb) ~ 100% (W l)=1/3, (Wqq)=2/3 Top events identified by decay products: tt Wb Wb lvb lvb dileptonic Low background rates = 10.3% tt Wb Wb lvb jjb lepton+jets Manageable background = 43.5% tt Wb Wb jjb jjb hadronic or all jets High multijet background rates = 46.2%
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Tevatron Measurements
Kidonakis + Vogt: = 6.8 0.6 pb Cacciari et al: = 6.7 0.7 pb CDF, mt = 170 GeV: = 7.7 0.9 pb CDF, mt = 175 GeV: = 7.3 0.9 pb
Dilepton: Largest uncertainty on estimate of
Z+jet, +jet backgrounds. Lepton+jets: NN exploits kinematics and topology to distinguish ttbar from W+jet, QCD multijet backgrounds. Lepton+jets: Relies on b-tagging using displaced secondary vertices. Largest uncertainty on b-tag, W+Njet, QCD multijet backgrounds. Lepton+jets: Relies on soft lepton b-tag. Main uncertainties are on b-tag and mistag rate. MET: Requires missing ET. Selects tau+jets events. Trigger efficiency is dominant systematic uncertainty. Hadronic: Largest uncertainties are on QCD 6 multijet rate and b-tag rate of multijet events.
Hadronic calorimeter.
Muon spectrometer.
mt = 175 GeV, s = 14 TeV NLO calculation: = 803 90 pb NLO + NLL: = 833 +5239 pb
A. Shibata
Commissioning Analysis
Designed to perform first observation of top pair production with ATLAS.
L~100 pb-1 Represents ~ 80,000 top pairs.
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no cuts, = 0.53 one lepton, = 0.71 four jets, = 0.82 missing Et, = 0.82
Semileptonic ttbar with e, = 17.55% Semileptonic ttbar with , = 25.13% Semileptonic ttbar with , = 3.68% Dileptonic ttbar, = 7.73%
Until data is available, Monte Carlo generated events used to develop analysis. Selection cuts:
Designed to select semileptonic ttbar events with e, . Exactly one isolated e or . pT > 20 GeV || < 2.5 At least four jets. First three jets: pT > 40 GeV Fourth jet: pT > 20 GeV || < 2.5 missing ET > 20 GeV. No b-tagging is required.
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Semileptonic ttbar with , = 24.41% Semileptonic ttbar with , = 3.53% Dileptonic ttbar, = 7.17% Hadronic ttbar, = 0.10% W+N Jets Background, = 8.63% MCatNLO leptonic ttbar, = 13.25% Signal + Background, = 161.08, = 23.23, 2 / DoF = 1.08 Combinatorial + Physics Background
Generated top mass is 175 GeV. mW = 78.90 0.5 GeV. Generated W mass is 80.4 GeV.
Mass of Best Hadronic W Candidate for L = 97 pb -1
Events / 4.0 GeV
Semileptonic ttbar with e, = 16.83% Semileptonic ttbar with , = 24.41% Semileptonic ttbar with , = 3.53% Dileptonic ttbar, = 7.17%
Hadronic ttbar, = 0.10% W+N Jets Background, = 8.63% MCatNLO leptonic ttbar, = 13.25% Signal + Background, = 78.90, = 4.72, 2 / DoF = 1.21
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Trijet combination with maximal pT represents tWbjjb. Dijet combination with maximal pT represents Wjj. Fit mass distribution using Gaussian and polynomial; mean is fitted mass.
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Semileptonic ttbar with e, = 17.55% Semileptonic ttbar with , = 25.13% Semileptonic ttbar with , = 3.68% Dileptonic ttbar, = 7.73% MCatNLO leptonic ttbar, = 13.93% Signal + Background, = 164.97, = 17.37, 2 / DoF = 1.58 Combinatorial + Physics Background
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Summary
Measurement of tt offers test of pQCD. Tevatron:
Theoretical calculation, s = 1.96 TeV: = 6.7 0.7 pb CDF experiment: = 7.3 0.9 pb
LHC:
Theoretical calculation, s = 14 TeV: = 833 +5239 pb ATLAS analyses currently performed using Monte Carlo generated events. Optimization of event selection and reconstruction, and evaluation of systematic errors is underway.
Backup Slides
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