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A study of the associated production of a Z boson and a charm quark jet (Z+c), and a comparison to production with a b quark jet (Z+b), in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV are presented. The analysis uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb$^{-1}$, collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The Z boson candidates are identified through their decays into pairs of electrons or muons. Jets originating from heavy flavour quarks are identified using semileptonic decays of c or b flavoured hadrons and hadronic decays of charm hadrons. The measurements are performed in the kinematic region with two leptons with $p_T^l > 20$ GeV, $|\eta_l| < 2.1$, $71 < m_{\ell\ell} < 111$ GeV, and heavy flavour jets with $p_T^{\text{jet}} > 25$ GeV and $|\eta_\text{jet}| < 2.5$. The Z+c production cross section is measured to $\sigma(pp \to Z + c + X) \mathcal{B}(Z \to \ell^+\ell^-) = 8.8 \pm 0.5$ (stat) $\pm 0.6$ (syst) pb. The ratio of the Z+c and Z+b production cross sections is measured to be $\sigma(pp \to Z + c + X)/\sigma(pp \to Z + b + X) = 2.0 \pm 0.2$ (stat) $\pm 0.2$ (syst). The Z+c production cross section and the cross section ratio are also measured as a function of the transverse momentum of the Z boson and of the heavy flavour jet. The measurements are compared with theoretical predictions.

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Signal yields N(Z+c) and N(Z+b), efficiency*acceptance correction factors C(Z+c) and C(Z+b), cross section sigma(Z+c)B and cross section ratios sigma(Z+c)/sigma(Z+b) in...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558718yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558718/csvcsv
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Z+c and Z+b signal yields, differential cross section dsigma(Z+c)/dpTZ times branching ratio and differential cross sections ratio dsigma(Z+c)/dpTZ / dsigma(Z+b)/dpTZ...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558719yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558719/csvcsv
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Z+c and Z+b signal yields, differential cross section dsigma(Z+c)/dpTZ times branching ratio and differential cross sections ratio dsigma(Z+c)/dpTZ / dsigma(Z+b)/dpTZ...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558720yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558720/csvcsv
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Differential cross section dsigma(Z+c)/dpTZ times branching ratio and differential cross sections ratio dsigma(Z+c)/dpTZ / dsigma(Z+b)/dpTZ for three ranges of the...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558721yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558721/csvcsv
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Data from Table 4 lower

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Differential cross section dsigma(Z+c)/dpTjet times branching ratio and differential cross sections ratio dsigma(Z+c)/dpTZ / dsigma(Z+b)/dpTjet for three ranges of the...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558722yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558722/csvcsv
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Transverse momentum distribution of the selected muon-inside-a-jet for events with an identified muon among the jet constituents in the dielectron...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558723yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558723/csvcsv
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Transverse momentum distribution of the selected muon-inside-a-jet for events with an identified muon among the jet constituents in the dimuon...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558724yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558724/csvcsv
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Figure 2 a

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The invariant mass distribution of three-prong secondary vertices for events selected in the D± mode, in the dielectron channel
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558725yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558725/csvcsv
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Figure 2 b

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The invariant mass distribution of three-prong secondary vertices for events selected in the D ± mode, in the dimuon channel
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558726yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558726/csvcsv
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Figure 3 a

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The invariant mass distribution of the three-track system composed of a two-prong secondary vertex and a primary particle for events...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558727yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558727/csvcsv
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Figure 3 b

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The invariant mass distribution of the three-track system composed of a two-prong secondary vertex and a primary particle for events...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558728yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558728/csvcsv
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Figure 4 a

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Transverse momentum distribution of the c-tagged jet normalized to unity, in simulated W+c and Z+c samples and in W+c data...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558729yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558729/csvcsv
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Figure 4 b

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Number of reconstructed secondary vertices normalized to unity, in simulated W+c and Z+c samples and in W+c data events.
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558730yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558730/csvcsv
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Figure 5 a

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Distribution of the corrected secondary-vertex mass normalized to unity, in simulated W + c and Z + c samples, and...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558731yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558731/csvcsv
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Figure 5 b

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Distribution of the JP discriminant for the D± mode normalized to unity, in simulated W + c and Z +...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558732yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558732/csvcsv
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Figure 5 c

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Distribution of the JP discriminant for the D∗(2010) ± mode normalized to unity, in simulated W + c and Z...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558733yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558733/csvcsv
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Figure 6

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Distribution of the corrected secondary-vertex mass normalized to unity from simulated Z + b and eμ-tt data events
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558734yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558734/csvcsv
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Figure 7 a

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Corrected secondary-vertex mass distributions, after background subtraction in the dielectron channel for events selected in the semileptonic mode.
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558735yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558735/csvcsv
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Figure 7 b

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Corrected secondary-vertex mass distributions, after background subtraction in the dimuon channel for events selected in the semileptonic mode.
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558736yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558736/csvcsv
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Figure 8a

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Background-subtracted distributions of the JP discriminant in the dielectron channel for Z + jets events with a D± → K∓...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558737yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558737/csvcsv
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Figure 8 b

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Background-subtracted distributions of the JP discriminant in the dimuon channel for Z + jets events with a D± → K∓...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558738yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558738/csvcsv
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Figure 9 a

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Background-subtracted distributions of the JP discriminant in the dielectron channel for Z +jets events with a D∗(2010)± → D0 π±...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558739yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558739/csvcsv
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Figure 9 b

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Background-subtracted distributions of the JP discriminant in the dimuon channel for Z +jets events with a D∗(2010)± → D0 π±...
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558740yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558740/csvcsv
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Figure 10

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ontributions to the systematic uncertainty in the measured Z+c cross section and in the (Z+c)/(Z+b) cross section ratio.
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558741yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558741/csvcsv
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Figure 11 a

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Differential Z + c cross section as a function of the transverse momentum of the Z boson
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558742yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558742/csvcsv
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Figure 11 b

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(Z +c)/(Z +b) cross section ratio as a function of the transverse momentum of teh Z boson
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558743yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558743/csvcsv
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Figure 11 c

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Differential Z + c cross section as a function of the transverse momentum of the jet
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558744yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558744/csvcsv
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Figure 11 d

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(Z +c)/(Z +b) cross section ratio as a function of the transverse momentum of the jet.
https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558745yaml https://www.hepdata.net/record/data/558745/csvcsv

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