Measurements of b-jet tagging efficiency with the ATLAS detector using tt¯ events at √s=13 TeV

UNSPECIFIED (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): 89. ISSN 1029-8479

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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−1 of 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.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3106
Subjects:
?? nuclear and high energy physics ??
ID Code:
128055
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Deposited On:
05 Oct 2018 10:22
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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15 Jul 2024 18:26