Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Single Lepton Channel with the ATLAS Experiment

Two precision measurements of the top quark pair production cross section in the lepton+jets channel are accomplished using data taken by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The data corresponds to proton-proton collisions taken in 2010 and 2011 at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The measurement using data from 2010 achieves an overall uncertainty of 12%, while the measurement using 2011 data reaches a precision of 6.6%. Both measurements are in good agreement with theoretical predictions in the framework of the Standard Model of particle physics.