Study of Heavy-Flavor Quarks Produced in Association with Top-Quark Pairs at √s̅=7 TeV using the ATLAS Detector

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dc.contributor.VIAF250674117 (Izen, JM)en_US
dc.contributor.VIAF250674117 (Izen, JM)
dc.contributor.authorAad, G.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAbajyan, T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAbdallah, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKhalek, S. Abdelen_US
dc.contributor.authorAbdelalim, A. A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAbdinov, O.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAshan, Mahsanaen_US
dc.contributor.authorNamasivayam, Harisankaren_US
dc.contributor.authorReeves, Kendallen_US
dc.contributor.authorWong, Wei-Chengen_US
dc.contributor.authorIzen, Joseph M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLou, Xinchouen_US
dc.contributor.utdAuthorAshan, Mahsanaen_US
dc.contributor.utdAuthorNamasivayam, Harisankaren_US
dc.contributor.utdAuthorReeves, Kendallen_US
dc.contributor.utdAuthorWong, Wei-Chengen_US
dc.contributor.utdAuthorIzen, Joseph M.en_US
dc.contributor.utdAuthorLou, Xinchouen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-20T18:40:50Z
dc.date.available2014-08-20T18:40:50Z
dc.date.created2014-04-21en_US
dc.date.issued2014-04-21en_US
dc.description.abstractUsing a sample of dilepton top-quark pair (tt̅) candidate events, a study is performed of the production of top-quark pairs together with heavy-flavor (HF) quarks, the sum of tt̅ + b + X and tt̅ + c + X, collectively referred to as tt̅ + HF. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The presence of additional HF (b or c) quarks in the tt̅ sample is inferred by looking for events with at least three b-tagged jets, where two are attributed to the b quarks from the tt̅ decays and the third to additional HF production. The dominant background to tt̅ + HF in this sample is tt̅ + jet events in which a light-flavor jet is misidentified as a heavy-flavor jet. To determine the heavy-and light-flavor content of the additional b-tagged jets, a fit to the vertex mass distribution of b-tagged jets in the sample is performed. The result of the fit shows that 79 ± 14 (stat) ± 22 (syst) of the 105 selected extra b-tagged jets originate from HF quarks, 3 standard deviations away from the hypothesis of zero + HF production. The result for extra HF production is quoted as a ratio (R-HF) of the cross section for tt̅ + HF production to the cross section for tt̅ production with at least one additional jet. Both cross sections are measured in a fiducial kinematic region within the ATLAS acceptance. R-HF is measured to be [6.2 ± 1.1(stat) ± 1.8 (syst)]% for jets with p_T > 25 GeV and |η| < 2.5, in agreement with the expectations from Monte Carlo generators.en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationAad, G., T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, et al. 2014. "Study of heavy-flavor quarks produced in association with top-quark pairs at √s̅=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector." Physical Review D 89(7), doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.072012en_US
dc.identifier.issn1550-7998en_US
dc.identifier.issue7en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/3908
dc.identifier.volume89en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Societyen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.072012
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 (Attribution)en_US
dc.rights©2014 American Physical Societyen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en_US
dc.sourcePhysical Review D
dc.subjectJets (Nuclear physics)en_US
dc.subjectQuarksen_US
dc.subjectParticles (Nuclear physics)--Flavoren_US
dc.subjectLarge Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)en_US
dc.titleStudy of Heavy-Flavor Quarks Produced in Association with Top-Quark Pairs at √s̅=7 TeV using the ATLAS Detectoren_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreArticleen_US

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