21 March 2022 to 30 September 2022
Europe/Zurich timezone

The comparison study of the ratio between $t\overline{t}\gamma$ and $t\overline{t}$ in the $e\mu$ channel at 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector

22 Mar 2022, 17:15
15m

Speaker

Thuso Mathaha (University of the Witwatersrand)

Description

With the goal of increasing the precision of NLO QCD predictions for the $pp\rightarrow t\overline{t}\gamma$ process in the di-lepton top quark decay channel we present a study of the ratio of top quarks together with a photon to the top quark pair. Fully realistic LO and NLO computations for $t\overline{t}\gamma$ and $t\overline{t}$ production are employed. Events with exactly one electron and one muon, and at least two jets with one of them being a $b$-tagged are selected. Multiple observables are related with Monte Carlo simulations at leading-order and next-to-leading-order theoretical calculations. The variables include photon kinematic variables, angular separation between the two leptons, and angular variables related to the photon and the leptons.

Primary authors

Thuso Mathaha (University of the Witwatersrand) Mr Abhaya Kumar Swain (University of the Witwatersrand) Prof. Bruce Mellado-Garcia (iThemba LABS, Wits) Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand) Dr Xifeng Ruan (School of Physics, Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand)

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