Erratum: Measurement of the tt̄ production cross-section using eμ events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector (Physics Letters B (2016) 761 (136-157) PII: S0370269316304397 DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.019)

Abstract

This paper describes a measurement of the inclusive top quark pair production cross-section (σ<inf>tt¯</inf>) with a data sample of 3.2 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV, collected in 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. This measurement uses events with an opposite-charge electron–muon pair in the final state. Jets containing b-quarks are tagged using an algorithm based on track impact parameters and reconstructed secondary vertices. The numbers of events with exactly one and exactly two b-tagged jets are counted and used to determine simultaneously σ<inf>tt¯</inf> and the efficiency to reconstruct and b-tag a jet from a top quark decay, thereby minimising the associated systematic uncertainties. The cross-section is measured to be: σ<inf>tt¯</inf> = 818 ± 8 (stat) ± 27 (syst) ± 19 (lumi) ± 12 (beam) pb, where the four uncertainties arise from data statistics, experimental and theoretical systematic effects, the integrated luminosity and the LHC beam energy, giving a total relative uncertainty of 4.4%. The result is consistent with theoretical QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order. A fiducial measurement corresponding to the experimental acceptance of the leptons is also presented. © 2023 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.