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Measurements of jet observables sensitive to b-quark fragmentation in tt¯ events at the LHC with the ATLAS detector

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysical review. D., vol. 106, no. 3
Publication date2022
First online date2022-08-09
Abstract

Several observables sensitive to the fragmentation of b quarks into b hadrons are measured using 36 fb-1 of s=13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Jets containing b hadrons are obtained from a sample of dileptonic tt¯ events, and the associated set of charged-particle tracks is separated into those from the primary pp interaction vertex and those from the displaced b-decay secondary vertex. This division is used to construct observables that characterize the longitudinal and transverse momentum distributions of the b hadron within the jet. The measurements have been corrected for detector effects and provide a test of heavy-quark-fragmentation modeling at the LHC in a system where the top-quark decay products are color connected to the proton beam remnants. The unfolded distributions are compared with the predictions of several modern Monte Carlo parton-shower generators and generator tunes, and a wide range of agreement with the data is observed, with p values varying from 5×10-4 to 0.98. These measurements complement similar measurements from e+e- collider experiments in which the b quarks originate from a color singlet Z/γ*.

Keywords
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Top: pair production
  • P p: interaction
  • Charged particle: tracks
  • Transverse momentum: momentum spectrum
  • Vertex: secondary
  • Top: leptonic decay
  • P p: scattering
  • Final state: ((n)jet dilepton)
  • Track data analysis: vertex
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Bottom: fragmentation
  • Fragmentation function
  • ATLAS
  • Momentum spectrum: longitudinal momentum
  • Numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
  • Experimental results
  • 13000 GeV-cms
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ATLAS Collaboration. Measurements of jet observables sensitive to b-quark fragmentation in tt¯ events at the LHC with the ATLAS detector. In: Physical review. D., 2022, vol. 106, n° 3. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.032008
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Journal ISSN2470-0010
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