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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Issue Date
2013-12-06Author
Baringer, Philip S.
Bean, Alice
Benelli, Gabriele
Kenny, R. P., III
Murray, Michael J.
Noonan, Danny
Sanders, Stephen J.
Stringer, Robert W.
Wood, Jeffrey Scott
Chatrchyan, S.
Khachatryan, V.
Sirunyan, A. M.
Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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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(−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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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP12%282013%29039.
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S. Chatrchyan et al. (2010). "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. Journal of High Energy Physics, 12(2013):39. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2013)039.
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