Search

Scholarly Works (2 results)

Article
Peer Reviewed

Measurement of the cross-section for W boson production in association with b-jets in pp collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2013)

This paper reports a measurement of the W +b-jets (W +b+ X and W+b̄b+X) production cross-section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC. These results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb-1, collected with the ATLAS detector. Cross-sections are presented as a function of jet multiplicity and of the transverse momentum of the leading b-jet for both the muon and electron decay modes of the W boson. The W +b-jets cross-section, corrected for all known detector effects, is quoted in a limited kinematic range. Combining the muon and electron channels, the fiducial cross-section for W +b-jets is measured to be 7.1 ± 0.5 (stat) ± 1.4 (syst) pb, consistent with the next-to-leading order QCD prediction, corrected for non-perturbative and double-parton interactions (DPI) contributions, of 4.70 ± 0.09 (stat)-0.49+0.60 (scale) ±0.06 (PDF) ±0.16 (non-pert)-0.38+0.52 (DPI) pb. © 2013 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.

Cover page: Measurement of the cross-section for W boson production in association with b-jets in pp collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license

Article
Peer Reviewed

Search for single b⁎-quark production with the ATLAS detector at s=7 TeV

UC Santa Cruz Previously Published Works (2013)

The results of a search for an excited bottom-quark b⁎ in pp collisions at s=7 TeV, using 4.7 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. In the model studied, a single b⁎-quark is produced through a chromomagnetic interaction and subsequently decays to a W boson and a top quark. The search is performed in the dilepton and lepton + jets final states, which are combined to set limits on b⁎-quark couplings for a range of b⁎-quark masses. For a benchmark with unit size chromomagnetic and Standard Model-like electroweak b⁎ couplings, b⁎ quarks with masses less than 870 GeV are excluded at the 95% credibility level.