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ATLAS b-jet identification performance and efficiency measurement with tt¯ events in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
  • Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
  • NOVA University Lisbon
  • CERN
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Massachusetts
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Pavia
  • University of Göttingen
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Bogazici University
  • Istanbul University
  • University of Geneva
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • Université Clermont Auvergne
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • IFT-UAM/CSIC
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • McGill University
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Kyoto University
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC

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Abstract

The algorithms used by the ATLAS Collaboration during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider to identify jets containing b-hadrons are presented. The performance of the algorithms is evaluated in the simulation and the efficiency with which these algorithms identify jets containing b-hadrons is measured in collision data. The measurement uses a likelihood-based method in a sample highly enriched in tt¯ events. The topology of the t→ Wb decays is exploited to simultaneously measure both the jet flavour composition of the sample and the efficiency in a transverse momentum range from 20 to 600 GeV. The efficiency measurement is subsequently compared with that predicted by the simulation. The data used in this measurement, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 80.5 fb - 1, were collected in proton–proton collisions during the years 2015–2017 at a centre-of-mass energy s= 13 TeV. By simultaneously extracting both the efficiency and jet flavour composition, this measurement significantly improves the precision compared to previous results, with uncertainties ranging from 1 to 8% depending on the jet transverse momentum.

Original languageEnglish
Article number970
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume79
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2019

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