Measurement of differential cross sections of isolated-photon plus heavy-flavour jet production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud; G. Aad; B. Abbott; O. Abdinov; B Abeloos; S.H. Abidi; Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid; NL Abraham; H. Abramowicz; H. Abreu; R. Abreu; Y. Abulaiti; B.S. Acharya; Shin-ichi Adachi; L. Adamczyk; J. Adelman; M. Adersberger; T. Adye; A. A. Affolder; Mogens Dam; Geert-Jan Besjes; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; Peter Henrik Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Flavia de Almeida Dias; Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele; James William Monk; Milena Bajic; Troels Christian Petersen; Simon Holm Stark; Stefania Xella

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.054

Measurement of differential cross sections of isolated-photon plus heavy-flavour jet production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, S.H. Abidi, Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, Shin-ichi Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, T. Adye, A. A. Affolder, Mogens DamGeert-Jan Besjes, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Graig Wiglesworth, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, James William Monk, Milena Bajic, Troels Christian Petersen, Simon Holm Stark, Stefania Xella

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This Letter presents the measurement of differential cross sections of isolated prompt photons produced in association with a b-jet or a c-jet. These final states provide sensitivity to the heavy-flavour content of the proton and aspects related to the modelling of heavy-flavour quarks in perturbative QCD. The measurement uses proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 20.2 fb⁻¹. The differential cross sections are measured for each jet flavour with respect to the transverse energy of the leading photon in two photon pseudorapidity regions: |η^γ|<1.37 and 1.56<|η^γ|<2.37. The measurement covers photon transverse energies 25<E_T ^γ<400 GeV and 25<E_T ^γ<350 GeV respectively for the two |η^γ| regions. For each jet flavour, the ratio of the cross sections in the two |η^γ| regions is also measured. The measurement is corrected for detector effects and compared to leading-order and next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations, based on various treatments and assumptions about the heavy-flavour content of the proton. Overall, the predictions agree well with the measurement, but some deviations are observed at high photon transverse energies. The total uncertainty in the measurement ranges between 13% and 66%, while the central γ+b measurement exhibits the smallest uncertainty, ranging from 13% to 27%, which is comparable to the precision of the theoretical predictions.

Original language	English
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	776
Pages (from-to)	295-337
Number of pages	23
ISSN	0370-2693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.054
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2018

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Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., Abouzeid, O. S. A., Abraham, NL., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adachi, S., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J., Adersberger, M., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A., ... Xella, S. (2018). Measurement of differential cross sections of isolated-photon plus heavy-flavour jet production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 776, 295-337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.054

Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, Abouzeid, OSA, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adachi, S, Adamczyk, L, Adelman, J, Adersberger, M, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Dam, M, Besjes, G-J, Alonso Diaz, A, Hansen, PH , Hansen, JB , Hansen, JD , Wiglesworth, G, Galster, GAGK, de Almeida Dias, F, Thiele, FAJ, Monk, JW, Bajic, M, Petersen, TC, Stark, SH & Xella, S 2018, 'Measurement of differential cross sections of isolated-photon plus heavy-flavour jet production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector', Physics Letters B, vol. 776, pp. 295-337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.054

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Measurement of differential cross sections of isolated-photon plus heavy-flavour jet production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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