Aaboud, M;
Aad, G;
Abbott, B;
Abdinov, O;
Abeloos, B;
Abhayasinghe, DK;
Abidi, SH;
... Arabidze, G; + view all
(2018)
Measurements of b-jet tagging efficiency with the ATLAS detector using tt¯ events at √s=13 TeV.
Journal of High Energy Physics
, 2018
(8)
, Article 089. 10.1007/JHEP08(2018)089.
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Abstract
The efficiency to identify jets containing b-hadrons (b-jets) is measured using a high purity sample of dileptonic top quark-antiquark pairs (tt¯) selected from the 36.1 fb−1of data collected by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016 from proton-proton collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy s=13 TeV. Two methods are used to extract the efficiency from tt¯ events, a combinatorial likelihood approach and a tag-and-probe method. A boosted decision tree, not using b-tagging information, is used to select events in which two b-jets are present, which reduces the dominant uncertainty in the modelling of the flavour of the jets. The efficiency is extracted for jets in a transverse momentum range from 20 to 300 GeV, with data-to-simulation scale factors calculated by comparing the efficiency measured using collision data to that predicted by the simulation. The two methods give compatible results, and achieve a similar level of precision, measuring data-to-simulation scale factors close to unity with uncertainties ranging from 2% to 12% depending on the jet transverse momentum.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Measurements of b-jet tagging efficiency with the ATLAS detector using tt¯ events at √s=13 TeV |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP08(2018)089 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2018)089 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10055347 |
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