Title: | Measurement of the production cross sections for a Z boson and one or more b jets in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV |
Authors: | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Erö, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Frühwirth, R Beluffi, C Shulha, S Skatchkov, N Smirnov, V Tikhonenko, E Zarubin, A Evstyukhin, S Golovtsov, V Ivanov, Y Kim, V Levchenko, P Bruno, G Murzin, V Oreshkin, V Smirnov, I Sulimov, V Uvarov, L Vavilov, S Vorobyev, A Vorobyev, A Andreev, Y Dermenev, A Castello, R Gninenko, S Golubev, N Kirsanov, M Krasnikov, N Pashenkov, A Tlisov, D Toropin, A Epshteyn, V Erofeeva, M Gavrilov, V Caudron, A Lychkovskaya, N Popov, V Safronov, G Semenov, S Spiridonov, A Stolin, V Vlasov, E Zhokin, A Andreev, V Azarkin, M Ceard, L Dremin, I Kirakosyan, M Leonidov, A Mesyats, G Rusakov, SV Vinogradov, A Belyaev, A Boos, E Bunichev, V Dubinin, M Da Silveira, GG Dudko, L Ershov, A Klyukhin, V Kodolova, O Lokhtin, I Markina, A Obraztsov, S Petrushanko, S Savrin, V Snigirev, A Delaere, C Azhgirey, I Bayshev, I Bitioukov, S Kachanov, V Kalinin, A Konstantinov, D Krychkine, V Petrov, V Ryutin, R Sobol, A Du Pree, T Tourtchanovitch, L Troshin, S Tyurin, N Uzunian, A Volkov, A Adzic, P Djordjevic, M Ekmedzic, M Krpic, D Milosevic, J Favart, D Aguilar-Benitez, M Maestre, JA Battilana, C Calvo, E Cerrada, M Llatas, MC Colino, N De La Cruz, B Peris, AD Vázquez, DD Forthomme, L Bedoya, CF Ramos, JPF Ferrando, A Flix, J Fouz, MC Garcia-Abia, P Lopez, OG Lopez, SG Hernandez, JM Josa, MI Ghete, VM Giammanco, A Merino, G De Martino, EN Pelayo, JP Olmeda, AQ Redondo, I Romero, L Santaolalla, J Soares, MS Willmott, C Albajar, C Hollar, J De Trocóniz, JF Brun, H Cuevas, J Menendez, JF Folgueras, S Caballero, IG Iglesias, LL Gomez, JP Cifuentes, JAB Cabrillo, IJ Jez, P Calderon, A Chuang, SH Campderros, JD Fernandez, M Gomez, G Sanchez, JG Graziano, A Jorda, C Virto, AL Marco, J Lemaitre, V Marco, R Rivero, CM Matorras, F Sanchez, FJM Rodrigo, T Rodríguez-Marrero, AY Ruiz-Jimeno, A Scodellaro, L Vila, I Cortabitarte, RV Liao, J Abbaneo, D Auffray, E Auzinger, G Bachtis, M Baillon, P Ball, AH Barney, D Bendavid, J Benitez, JF Bernet, C Militaru, O Bianchi, G Bloch, P Bocci, A Bonato, A Bondu, O Botta, C Breuker, H Camporesi, T Cerminara, G Christiansen, T Nuttens, C Perez, JAC Colafranceschi, S D'alfonso, M D'enterria, D Dabrowski, A David, A De Guio, F De Roeck, A De Visscher, S Di Guida, S Pagano, D Dobson, M Dupont-Sagorin, N Elliott-Peisert, A Eugster, J Funk, W Georgiou, G Giffels, M Gigi, D Gill, K Giordano, D Pin, A Girone, M Giunta, M Glege, F Garrido, RG-R Gowdy, S Guida, R Hammer, J Hansen, M Harris, P Hartl, C Piotrzkowski, K Hinzmann, A Innocente, V Janot, P Karavakis, E Kousouris, K Krajczar, K Lecoq, P Lee, Y-J Lourenço, C Magini, N Hörmann, N Popov, A Malgeri, L Mannelli, M Masetti, L Meijers, F Mersi, S Meschi, E Moser, R Mulders, M Musella, P Nesvold, E Selvaggi, M Orsini, L Cortezon, EP Perez, E Perrozzi, L Petrilli, A Pfeiffer, A Pierini, M Pimiä, M Piparo, D Plagge, M Garcia, JMV Quertenmont, L Racz, A Reece, W Rolandi, G Rovere, M 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Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron Scattering;Jet physics |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Citation: | Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(6): 120, (12 June 2014) |
Abstract: | The production of a Z boson, decaying into two leptons and produced in association with one or more b jets, is studied using proton-proton collisions delivered by the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The data were recorded in 2011 with the CMS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5 fb-1. The Z(ℓℓ) + b-jets cross sections (where ℓℓ = μμ or ee) are measured separately for a Z boson produced with exactly one b jet and with at least two b jets. In addition, a cross section ratio is extracted for a Z boson produced with at least one b jet, relative to a Z boson produced with at least one jet. The measured cross sections are compared to various theoretical predictions, and the data favour the predictions in the five-flavour scheme, where b quarks are assumed massless. The kinematic properties of the reconstructed particles are compared with the predictions from the MadGraph event generator using the pythia parton shower simulation. |
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URI: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP06%282014%29120 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9269 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2014)120 |
ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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