Measurement of the cross section and angular correlations for associated production of a Z boson with b hadrons in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
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Apyan, Aram
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Kim, Y.
Klute, Markus
Lai, Yue Shi
Ma, Teng
Date Issued
December 2013
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, et al. “Measurement of the Cross Section and Angular Correlations for Associated Production of a Z Boson with b Hadrons in Pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV.” J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, no. 12 (December 2013). © CERN, for the bene fit of the CMS collaboration
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Abstract
A study of proton-proton collisions in which two b hadrons are produced in association with a Z boson is reported. The collisions were recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeVwith the CMS detector at the LHC, for an integrated luminosity of 5.2 fb[superscript −1]. The b hadrons are identified by means of displaced secondary vertices, without the use of reconstructed jets, permitting the study of b-hadron pair production at small angular separation. Differential cross sections are presented as a function of the angular separation of the b hadrons and the Z boson. In addition, inclusive measurements are presented. For both the inclusive and differential studies, different ranges of Z boson momentum are considered, and each measurement is compared to the predictions from different event generators at leading-order and next-to-leading-order accuracy.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2013)039