Inclusive b-jet production in pp collisions at √s = 7 Tev

• Main Authors: CMS Collaboration (Author), Alver, Burak Han (Contributor), Bauer, Gerry P (Contributor), Bendavid, Joshua L. (Contributor), Busza, Wit (Contributor), Butz, Erik M. (Contributor), Cali, Ivan Amos (Contributor), Chan, Matthew Hans (Contributor), Dutta, Valentina (Contributor), Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Contributor), Goncharov, Maxim (Contributor), Hahn, Kristian Allan (Contributor), Kim, Yongsun (Contributor), Klute, Markus (Contributor), Lee, Yen-Jie (Contributor), Liu, Wenfeng (Contributor), Luckey Jr, P David (Contributor), Ma, Teng (Contributor), Nahn, Steven (Contributor), Paus, Christoph M. E. (Contributor), Ralph, Duncan Kelley (Contributor), Roland, Christof E (Contributor), Roland, Gunther M (Contributor), Rudolph, Matthew Scott (Contributor), Stephans, George S. F. (Contributor), Stoeckli, Fabian (Contributor), Sumorok, Konstanty C (Contributor), Sung, Kevin Kai Hong (Contributor), Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru (Contributor), Wenger, Edward Allen (Contributor), Wolf, Roger (Contributor), Wyslouch, Boleslaw (Contributor), Xie, Si (Contributor), Yang, Ming (Contributor), Yilmaz, Yetkin (Contributor), Yoon, A. S. (Contributor), Zanetti, Marco (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature, 2018-08-07T16:28:35Z.
• Subjects: Article
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 The inclusive b-jet production cross section in pp collisions at a center-ofmass energy of 7 TeV is measured using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The cross section is presented as a function of the jet transverse momentum in the range 18 < pT < 200 GeV for several rapidity intervals. The results are also given as the ratio of the b-jet production cross section to the inclusive jet production cross section. The measurement is performed with two different analyses, which differ in their trigger selection and b-jet identification: a jet analysis that selects events with a b jet using a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb⁻¹, and a muon analysis requiring a b jet with a muon based on an integrated luminosity of 3 pb⁻¹. In both approaches the b jets are identified by requiring a secondary vertex. The results from the two methods are in agreement with each other and with next-to-leading order calculations, as well as with predictions based on the pythia event generator. Keyword: Hadron-Hadron Scattering