Measurement of the cross section and angular correlations for associated production of a Z boson with b hadrons in pp collisions at ?s=7 TeV

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2013

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Springer

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Özet

A study of proton-proton collisions in which two b hadrons are produced in association with a Z boson is reported. The collisions were recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeVwith the CMS detector at the LHC, for an integrated luminosity of 5.2 fb(-1). The b hadrons are identified by means of displaced secondary vertices, without the use of reconstructed jets, permitting the study of b-hadron pair production at small angular separation. Differential cross sections are presented as a function of the angular separation of the b hadrons and the Z boson. In addition, inclusive measurements are presented. For both the inclusive and differential studies, different ranges of Z boson momentum are considered, and each measurement is compared to the predictions from different event generators at leading-order and next-to-leading-order accuracy.

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Hadron-Hadron Scattering

Kaynak

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Q1

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Q1

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12

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