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Measurement of the cross section of high transverse momentum Z?bb¯ production in proton–proton collisions at vs = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:07 authored by Benedict AllbrookeBenedict Allbrooke, Lily AsquithLily Asquith, Alessandro CerriAlessandro Cerri, C A Chavez Barajas, Antonella De SantoAntonella De Santo, Fabrizio SalvatoreFabrizio Salvatore, I Santoyo Castillo, K Suruliz, Mark SuttonMark Sutton, Iacopo Vivarelli, The ATLAS CollaborationThis Letter reports the observation of a high transverse momentum Z?bb¯ signal in proton–proton collisions at vs=8 TeV and the measurement of its production cross section. The data analysed were collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb-¹. The Z?bb¯ decay is reconstructed from a pair of b -tagged jets, clustered with the anti-ktkt jet algorithm with R=0.4R=0.4, that have low angular separation and form a dijet with pT>200 GeVpT>200 GeV. The signal yield is extracted from a fit to the dijet invariant mass distribution, with the dominant, multi-jet background mass shape estimated by employing a fully data-driven technique that reduces the dependence of the analysis on simulation. The fiducial cross section is determined to be sZ?bb¯fid=2.02±0.20 (stat.) ±0.25 (syst.)±0.06 (lumi.) pb=2.02±0.33 pb, in good agreement with next-to-leading-order theoretical predictions.
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ATLAS; G0275; STFC-SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL; ST/I006048/1
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Physics Letters BISSN
0370-2693Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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738Page range
25-43Department affiliated with
- Physics and Astronomy Publications
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- Experimental Particle Physics Research Group Publications
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2017-05-05First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2017-05-05Usage metrics
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