Measurements of ttbar Differential Cross Section at the ATLAS Experiment in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7TeV and sqrt(s)=8TeV

• Main Author: Franchini, Matteo <1986>
• Other Authors: Zoccoli, Antonio
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: en
• Published: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna 2014
• Subjects: FIS/04 Fisica nucleare e subnucleare
• Online Access: http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6231/

This PhD thesis presents two measurements of differential production cross section of top and anti-top pairs tt ̅ decaying in a lepton+jets final state. The normalize cross section is measured as a function of the top transverse momentum and the tt ̅ mass, transverse momentum and rapidity using the full 2011 proton-proton (pp) ATLAS data taking at a center of mass energy of √s=7 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of L=4.6 〖fb〗^(-1). The cross section is also measured at the particle level as a function of the hadronic top transverse momentum for highly energetic events using the full 2012 data taking at √s=8 TeV and with L=20 〖fb〗^(-1). The measured spectra are fully corrected for detector efficiency and resolution effects and are compared to several theoretical predictions showing a quite good agreement, depending on different spectra.