Measurements of inclusive and differential fiducial cross-sections of $$ t\overline{t} $$ production with additional heavy-flavour jets in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract This paper presents measurements of $$ t\overline{t} $$ t t ¯ production in association with additional b-jets in pp collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. Fiducial cross-section measurements are performed in the dilepton and lepton-plus-jets $$ t\overline{t} $$ t t ¯ decay channels. Results are presented at particle level in the form of inclusive cross-sections of $$ t\overline{t} $$ t t ¯ final states with three and four b-jets as well as differential cross-sections as a function of global event properties and properties of b-jet pairs. The measured inclusive fiducial cross-sections generally exceed the $$ t\overline{t}b\overline{b} $$ t t ¯ b b ¯ predictions from various next-to-leading-order matrix element calculations matched to a parton shower but are compatible within the total uncertainties. The experimental uncertainties are smaller than the uncertainties in the predictions. Comparisons of state-of-the-art theoretical predictions with the differential measurements are shown and good agreement with data is found for most of them.

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