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Measurement of the production cross section for a W boson and two b jets in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
Abstract
The production cross section for a W boson and two b jets is measured using proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV in a data sample collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb^(−1). The W + bb events are selected in the W → μν decay mode by requiring a muon with transverse momentum p_T>25 GeV and pseudorapidity |η|<2.1, and exactly two b-tagged jets with p_T>25 GeV and |η|<2.4. The measured W + bb production cross section in the fiducial region, calculated at the level of final-state particles, is σ(pp → W+bb) B(W → μν) = 0.53 ± 0.05 (stat.) ± 0.09 (syst.) ± 0.06 (theo.) ± 0.01 (lum.) pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction. In addition, kinematic distributions of the W + bb system are in agreement with the predictions of a simulation using MADGRAPH and PYTHIA.
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© 2014 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Received 23 December 2013. Received in revised form 14 June 2014. Accepted 14 June 2014. Available online 18 June 2014. Editor: M. Doser. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for deliv-ering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MOST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS(Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, SF0690030s09 and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hun-gary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Republicof Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie pro-gramme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (Euro-pean Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Founda-tion; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Fed-eral Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation For Polish Science, cofinanced by EU, Re-gional Development Fund; and the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU–ESF and the Greek NSRF.Attached Files
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Funding
- BMWF and FWF (Austria)
- FNRS and FWO (Belgium)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)
- Ministry of Education and Science (Bulgaria)
- CERN
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- MOST and NSFC (China)
- COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
- MSES and CSF (Croatia)
- Research Promotion Foundation (Cyprus)
- Ministry of Education and Research (Estonia)
- SF0690030s09
- European Regional Development Fund, Estonia
- Academy of Finland
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland)
- Helsinki Institute of Physics
- CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
- General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
- OTKA and NKTH (Hungary)
- DAE and DST (India)
- Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (Iran)
- Science Foundation, Ireland
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- NRF and WCU (Korea)
- Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINESTAV)
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)
- SEP and UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (New Zealand)
- Atomic Energy Commission (Pakistan)
- MSHE and NSC (Poland)
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- JINR (Dubna)
- MON
- RosAtom
- RAS and RFBR (Russia)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia)
- SEIDI and CPAN (Spain)
- Swiss Funding Agencies
- National Science Council (Taipei)
- Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics
- IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand)
- TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey)
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Marie Curie Fellowship
- Leventis Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
- Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'índustrie et dans l'Ágriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
- Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of Czech Republic
- Council of Science and Industrial Research (India)
- Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino)
- HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science
- European Union Regional Development Fund
- Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF
- Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)
- SCOAP3
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- European Research Council (ERC)
- EPLANET
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