Evidence for tt¯ tt¯ production in the multilepton final state in proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08509-3

Evidence for tt¯ tt¯ production in the multilepton final state in proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences
Department of Physics
University of South Africa
Cadi Ayyad University
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
CERN
Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
University of Massachusetts
University of Göttingen
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Toronto
University of Copenhagen
University of Sussex
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Argonne National Laboratory
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Université Grenoble Alpes
AGH University of Krakow
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Bogazici University
University of Geneva
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of California at Santa Cruz
Université Paris-Saclay
Université Clermont Auvergne
Radboud University Nijmegen
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
McGill University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Kyoto University
Lund University
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC

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A search is presented for four-top-quark production using an integrated luminosity of 139 fb^{- 1} of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are selected if they contain a same-sign lepton pair or at least three leptons (electrons or muons). Jet multiplicity, jet flavour and event kinematics are used to separate signal from the background through a multivariate discriminant, and dedicated control regions are used to constrain the dominant backgrounds. The four-top-quark production cross section is measured to be 24-6+7 fb. This corresponds to an observed (expected) significance with respect to the background-only hypothesis of 4.3 (2.4) standard deviations and provides evidence for this process.

Original language	English
Article number	1085
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	80
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08509-3
State	Published - Nov 2020

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Evidence for tt¯ tt¯ production in the multilepton final state in proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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