Measurement of the cross-section for W boson production in association with b-jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The collaboration
JHEP 06 (2013) 084, 2013.

Abstract (data abstract)
CERN-LHC. This paper reports a measurement of the $W+b$-jets 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, using jets reconstructed with the anti-$k_t$ clustering algorithm with transverse momentum above 25 GeV and rapidity within +- 2.1. 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 next-to-leading order QCD calculations within 1.5 standard deviations.

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Data from T 4, P 23(preprint)

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Measured fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-sections for the combination of the electron and muon channels with statistical and systematic uncertainties and breakdown...

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Data from T 4

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Breakdown of relative systematic uncertainties per jet multiplicity, and combined across jet bins.

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Data from T 5, T 9

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Measured fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section in the 1-jet region with statistical and systematic uncertainties in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$. Also shown are...

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Data from T 5

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Fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section correlations of statistical errors in the 1-jet region in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$.

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Data from T 5

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Fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section correlations of systematic errors in the 1-jet region in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$.

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Data from T 9

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Fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section correlations of statistical errors in the 1-jet region in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$ without single-top subtraction.

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Data from T 9

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Fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section correlations of systematic errors in the 1-jet region in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$ without single-top subtraction.

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Data from T 6, T 10

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Measured fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section in the 2-jet region with statistical and systematic uncertainties in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$. Also shown are...

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Data from T 6

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Fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section correlations of statistical errors in the 2-jet region in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$.

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Data from T 6

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Fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section correlations of systematic errors in the 2-jet region in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$.

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Data from T 10

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Fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section correlations of statistical errors in the 2-jet region in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$ without single-top subtraction.

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Data from T 10

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Fiducial $W+b$-jets cross-section correlations of systematic errors in the 2-jet region in bins of $p_T^{b-jet}$ without single-top subtraction.

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Data from T 7

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Multiplicative correction factors for non-perturbative effects and additive corrections for double-parton interactions, derived from the ALPGEN simulation, applied to the...

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Data from T 7

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Multiplicative correction factors for non-perturbative effects and additive corrections for double-parton interactions, derived from the ALPGEN simulation, applied to the...

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Data from T 8

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Theoretical NLO predictions for the $W+b$-jet fiducial cross-section for one lepton flavour calculated with the MCFM program, corrected for non-perturbative...

Version 2 modifications: Units corrected from nb/GeV to fb/GeV in Tables 3 and 8, due to an apparent mistake in Tables 5, 6, 9 and 10 of arXiv:1302.2929v1.