Measurements of fiducial cross-sections for t(t)over-bar production with one or two additional b-jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, M. Abolins, O.S. AbouZeid, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, B.S. Acharya, L. Adamczyk, David L. Adams, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Lotte Ansgaard ThomsenAlmut Maria Pingel, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig Wiglesworth, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

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Abstract

Fiducial cross-sections for tt¯ production with one or two additional b-jets are reported, using an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider, collected with the ATLAS detector. The cross-section times branching ratio for tt¯ events with at least one additional b-jet is measured to be 950 ± 70 (stat.) -190 +240 (syst.) fb in the lepton-plus-jets channel and 50 ± 10 (stat.) -10 +15 (syst.) fb in the eμ channel. The cross-section times branching ratio for events with at least two additional b-jets is measured to be 19.3 ± 3.5 (stat.) ± 5.7 (syst.) fb in the dilepton channel (eμ, μμ, and  ee) using a method based on tight selection criteria, and 13.5 ± 3.3 (stat.) ± 3.6 (syst.) fb using a looser selection that allows the background normalisation to be extracted from data. The latter method also measures a value of 1.30 ± 0.33 (stat.) ± 0.28 (syst.)% for the ratio of tt¯ production with two additional b-jets to tt¯ production with any two additional jets. All measurements are in good agreement with recent theory predictions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number11
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume76
Issue number1
ISSN1434-6044
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2016

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