Volume 485 - The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2025) - T04 Recent developments heavy ion physics, both experimental and theoretical aspects
Observation of top-quark pair production in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector
M.A. Tamlihat*  on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration
*: corresponding author
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Abstract
Measurements of top-quark pairs in heavy-ion collisions are expected to provide novel probes of nuclear parton distribution functions as well as to bring unique information about the time evolution of strongly interacting matter. We report the observation of top-quark pair production in proton-lead collisions at the centre-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Top-quark pair production is studied in the lepton+jets and dilepton channels, and the nuclear modification factor is measured for the first time for the top-quark pair process. Also, the first observation of top-quark production in Pb+Pb collisions at the centre-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV is presented. Top-quark pair production is measured in the eµ channel, with a significance of 5.0 standard deviations. The results are compared to theory predictions based on different nuclear PDF sets.
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