Top quark pair production cross section using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements of the inclusive top quark pair production cross sections in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider are presented. The measurements are performed requiring one or two electrons or muons in the final state. Various experimental techniques are compared. The most accurate result in obtained requiring opposite sign electrons and muons, achieves a precision of a few percent, and is in good agreement with a recent NNLO+NNLL QCD calculation. In addition, a di erential measurement of the top transverse momentum and kinematic properties of the top pair system are presented. This measurement requires one electron or muon in the final state and probes our understanding of top pair production in the TeV regime and is compared to recent Monte Carlo generators and theory calculations.