Measurement of the cross-section for W boson production in association with b-jets in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Authors: G. Aad, T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, A. A. Abdelalim, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, M. Abolins, Rena ÇİFTÇİ, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, M. I. Ochoa, B. S. Acharya, L. Adamczyk, D. L. Adams, T. N. Addy, J. Adelman, S. Adomeit, P. Adragna, T. Adye, S. Aefsky, J. A. Aguiar-Saavedra, M. Agustoni, S. P. Ahlen, F. Ahles, A. Ahmad, M. Ahsan, G. Aielli, T. P. A. Akesson, G. Akimoto, A. V. Akimov, M. A. Alam, J. Albert, S. Albrand, M. Aleksa, I. N. Aleksandrov, F. Alessandria, C. Alexa, G. Alexander, G. Alexandre, T. Alexopoulos, M. Alhroob, M. Aliev, G. Alimonti, J. Alison, B. M. M. Allbrooke, L. J. Allison, P. P. Allport, S. E. Allwood-Spiers, J. Almond, A. Aloisio, R. Alon, A. Alonso, F. Alonso, A. Altheimer, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, M. G. Alviggi, K. Amako, C. Amelung, V. V. Ammosov, S. P. Amor Dos Santos, A. Amorim, S. Amoroso, N. Amram, C. Anastopoulos, L. S. Ancu, N. Andari, T. Andeen, C. F. Anders, G. Anders, K. J. Anderson, A. Andreazza, V. Andrei, M-L. Andrieux, X. S. Anduaga, S. Angelidakis, P. Anger, A. Angerami, F. Anghinolfi, A. Anisenkov, N. Anjos, A. Annovi, A. Antonaki, M. Antonelli, A. Antonov, J. Antos, F. Anulli, M. Aoki, S. Aoun, L. Aperio Bella, R. Apolle, G. Arabidze, I. Aracena, Y. Arai, A. T. H. Arce, S. Arfaoui, J-F. Arguin, S. Argyropoulos, K. Augsten, M. Aurousseau, A. Bangert, D. Benchekroun, A. Bogouch, W. K. Brooks, T. Buanes, L. P. Caloba, L. Chikovani, M. L. Chu, V. Cindro, B. Epp, H. Hakobyan, M. Losada
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2013
Summary
This paper reports a measurement of the W+b-jets (W+b+X and W+b (b) over bar +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) (+0.60)(-0.49) (scale) +/- 0.06 (PDF) +/- 0.16 (non-pert) (+0.52)(-0.38) (DPI) pb.