Measurement of the cross section of high transverse momentum Z→bb¯ production in proton–proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.020

Measurement of the cross section of high transverse momentum Z→bb¯ production in proton–proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

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Abstract

This Letter reports the observation of a high transverse momentum Z→bb¯ signal in proton–proton collisions at s=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-k_t jet algorithm with R=0.4, that have low angular separation and form a dijet with p_T>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 σ_Z→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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25-43
Number of pages	19
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	738
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.020
State	Published - 10 Nov 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Boosted bb¯ topologies
LHC

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Measurement of the cross section of high transverse momentum Z→bb¯ production in proton–proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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