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Properties of g?b¯b at small opening angles in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at vs=13?TeV
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posted on 2023-06-09, 18:54 authored by N L Abraham, Benedict AllbrookeBenedict Allbrooke, Lily AsquithLily Asquith, Alessandro CerriAlessandro Cerri, Samuel Jones, Antonella De SantoAntonella De Santo, Fabrizio SalvatoreFabrizio Salvatore, Kate ShawKate Shaw, Thomas StevensonThomas Stevenson, K Suruliz, Mark SuttonMark Sutton, Fabio Tresoldi, Fabrizio Trovato, Iacopo Vivarelli, E Winkels, The ATLAS Collaboration, othersThe fragmentation of high-energy gluons at small opening angles is largely unconstrained by present measurements. Gluon splitting to b-quark pairs is a unique probe into the properties of gluon fragmentation because identified b-tagged jets provide a proxy for the quark daughters of the initial gluon. In this study, key differential distributions related to the g?b¯b process are measured using 33?fb-1 of vs=13?TeV pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2016. Jets constructed from charged-particle tracks, clustered with the anti-kt jet algorithm with radius parameter R=0.2, are used to probe angular scales below the R=0.4 jet radius. The observables are unfolded to particle level in order to facilitate direct comparisons with predictions from present and future simulations. Multiple significant differences are observed between the data and parton shower Monte Carlo predictions, providing input to improve these predictions of the main source of background events in analyses involving boosted Higgs bosons decaying into b-quarks.
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Physical Review DISSN
2470-0010Publisher
American Physical SocietyExternal DOI
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5Volume
99Page range
1-26Article number
a052004Department affiliated with
- Physics and Astronomy Publications
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2019-09-20First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-09-20First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-09-02Usage metrics
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