Measurement of the cross section for top-quark pair production in pp collisions at $\sqrt {s} = {7}\,{\text{TeV}}$ with the ATLAS detector using final states with two high-pT leptons

J. T. Childers | H. S. Bansil | M. P. Casado | J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra | M. A. Alam | M. I. Besana | N. M. Bolnet | A. Barr | J. Adelman | A. Annovi | J. Antoš | V. Bartsch | P. Beauchemin | D. Benjamin | J. Beringer | C. Blocker | A. Bocci | V. Boisvert | J. Boudreau | A. Boveia | B. Brau | C. Bromberg | M. Campanelli | F. Canelli | A. Canepa | D. Cauz | M. Cavalli-Sforza | A. Cerri | L. Cerrito | G. Choudalakis | A. Clark | F. Anghinolfi | M. Baker | J. Chapman | B. Abbott | C. Bohm | S. Böser | A. Christov | V. Cavasinni | H. Abramowicz | W. Bhimji | E. Chareyre | G. Aad | J. Abdallah | A. Abdelalim | O. Abdinov | B. Abi | M. Abolins | O. AbouZeid | H. Abreu | B. Acharya | L. Adamczyk | D. Adams | T. Addy | S. Adomeit | P. Adragna | T. Adye | S. Aefsky | M. Aharrouche | S. Ahlen | F. Ahles | A. Ahmad | M. Ahsan | G. Aielli | T. Akdogan | G. Akimoto | M. Alam | J. Albert | S. Albrand | M. Aleksa | I. Aleksandrov | F. Alessandria | C. Alexa | G. Alexander | G. Alexandre | T. Alexopoulos | M. Alhroob | M. Aliev | G. Alimonti | J. Alison | P. Allport | S. Allwood-Spiers | J. Almond | A. Aloisio | R. Alon | A. Alonso | B. González | M. Alviggi | K. Amako | C. Amelung | V. Ammosov | A. Amorim | N. Amram | C. Anastopoulos | L. Ancu | N. Andari | T. Andeen | C. Anders | G. Anders | K. Anderson | A. Andreazza | V. Andrei | M. Andrieux | X. Anduaga | A. Angerami | A. Anisenkov | N. Anjos | A. Antonaki | A. Antonov | F. Anulli | S. Aoun | L. A. Bella | R. Apolle | G. Arabidze | I. Aracena | S. Arfaoui | J. Arguin | E. Arik | M. Arik | A. Armbruster | O. Arnaez | C. Arnault | A. Artamonov | G. Artoni | D. Arutinov | S. Asai | S. Ask | B. Åsman | L. Asquith | K. Assamagan | A. Astbury | B. Aubert | É. Augé | K. Augsten | M. Aurousseau | G. Avolio | R. Avramidou | D. Axen | G. Azuelos | Y. Azuma | M. Baak | G. Baccaglioni | C. Bacci | A. Bach | H. Bachacou | K. Bachas | M. Backes | M. Backhaus | E. Badescu | S. Bahinipati | Y. Bai | D. Bailey | T. Bain | J. 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