Measurement of the production cross sections for a Z boson and one or more b jets in pp collisions at ?s = 7 TeV

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Tarih

2014

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Springer Verlag

Erişim Hakkı

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Özet

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(??) + b-jets cross sections (where ?? = ?? 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. [Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2014 The Author(s).

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Anahtar Kelimeler

Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Jet physics

Kaynak

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Q1

Cilt

2014

Sayı

6

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