Measurements of the production cross-section for a Z boson in association with b-jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2020)044

Measurements of the production cross-section for a Z boson in association with b-jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
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Department of Physics
University of South Africa
Cadi Ayyad University
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
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Universidad de Tarapacá
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University of Oklahoma
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Royal Holloway University of London
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University of Sussex
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Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Argonne National Laboratory
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
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University of Geneva
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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Radboud University Nijmegen
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of Rome Tor Vergata
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P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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This paper presents a measurement of the production cross-section of a Z boson in association with b-jets, in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.6 fb⁻¹. Inclusive and differential cross-sections are measured for events containing a Z boson decaying into electrons or muons and produced in association with at least one or at least two b-jets with transverse momentum p_T> 20 GeV and rapidity |y| < 2.5. Predictions from several Monte Carlo generators based on leading-order (LO) or next-to-leading-order (NLO) matrix elements interfaced with a parton-shower simulation and testing different flavour schemes for the choice of initial-state partons are compared with measured cross-sections. The 5-flavour number scheme predictions at NLO accuracy agree better with data than 4-flavour number scheme ones. The 4-flavour number scheme predictions underestimate data in events with at least one b-jet. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English
Article number	44
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2020
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)044
State	Published - Jul 1 2020

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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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Measurements of the production cross-section for a Z boson in association with b-jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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