Measurement of b-hadron pair production with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2017)062

Measurement of b-hadron pair production with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV

The ATLAS collaboration

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A measurement of b-hadron pair production is presented, based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 11.4 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collisions recorded at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are selected in which a b-hadron is reconstructed in a decay channel containing J/ψ → μμ, and a second b-hadron is reconstructed in a decay channel containing a muon. Results are presented in a fiducial volume defined by kinematic requirements on three muons based on those used in the analysis. The fiducial cross section is measured to be 17.7 ± 0.1(stat.) ± 2.0(syst.) nb. A number of normalised differential cross sections are also measured, and compared to predictions from the Pythia8, Herwig++, MadGraph5_aMC@NLO+Pythia8 and Sherpa event generators, providing new constraints on heavy flavour production.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original language	English
Article number	62
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2017
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)062
State	Published - 1 Nov 2017
Externally published	Yes

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B physics
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Measurement of b-hadron pair production with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV

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