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

G Aad; B Abbott; J Abdallah; S Abdel Khalek; O Abdinov; R Aben; B Abi; M Abolins; OS AbouZeid; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; R Abreu; Y Abulaiti; BS Acharya; L Adamczyk; DL Adams; J Adelman; S Adomeit; T Adye; T Agatonovic-Jovin; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; M Agustoni; SP Ahlen; F Ahmadov; G Aielli; H Akerstedt; TPA Åkesson; G Akimoto; AV Akimov; GL Alberghi; J Albert; S Albrand; MJ Alconada Verzini; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; C Alexa; G Alexander; G Alexandre; T Alexopoulos; M Alhroob; G Alimonti; L Alio; J Alison; BMM Allbrooke; LJ Allison; PP Allport; J Almond; A Aloisio; A Alonso; F Alonso; C Alpigiani; A Altheimer; B Alvarez Gonzalez; MG Alviggi; K Amako; Y Amaral Coutinho; C Amelung; D Amidei; SP Amor Dos Santos; A Amorim; S Amoroso; N Amram; G Amundsen; C Anastopoulos; LS Ancu; N Andari; T Andeen; CF Anders; G Anders; KJ Anderson; A Andreazza; V Andrei; XS Anduaga; S Angelidakis; I Angelozzi; P Anger; A Angerami; F Anghinolfi; AV Anisenkov; N Anjos; A Annovi; A Antonaki; M Antonelli; A Antonov; J Antos; F Anulli; M Aoki; L Aperio Bella; R Apolle; G Arabidze; I Aracena; Y Arai; JP Araque; ATH Arce; JF Arguin; S Argyropoulos; M Arik; AJ Armbruster; O Arnaez; V Arnal

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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

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS AbouZeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, R Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, J Adelman, S Adomeit, T Adye, T Agatonovic-Jovin Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.020

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-kt jet algorithm with R=0.4, that have low angular separation and form a dijet with pT>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 dependenc..

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We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COL-CIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; EPLANET, ERC and NSRF, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT and NSRF, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; BRF and RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States.