UNSPECIFIED (2016) Measurements of fiducial cross-sections for tt¯ production with one or two additional b-jets in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 76 (1): 11. ISSN 1434-6044
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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.) +240−190 (syst.) fb in the lepton-plus-jets channel and 50 ± 10 (stat.) +15−10 (syst.) fb in the eμeμ 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 (eμeμ, μμμμ, 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.