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

(ATLAS Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.032008

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

(ATLAS Collaboration)

Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
Department of Physics
University of Massachusetts
CERN
University of Göttingen
Department of Physics
Royal Holloway University of London
United States Department of Energy
University of Copenhagen
University of Sussex
Physics Department
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
High Energy Physics Division
Argonne National Laboratory
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
University of Grenoble Alpes
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science
AGH University of Krakow
University of Toronto
Department of Physics
Northern Illinois University
Department of Physics
Bogazici University
Department of Physics
Istanbul University
Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire
University of Geneva
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of California at Santa Cruz
Université Paris-Saclay
Université Clermont Auvergne
Institute for Mathematics
Radboud University Nijmegen
Department of Physics
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos
University of Granada
Dep Fisica
NOVA University Lisbon
Instituto de Física Teórica de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
University of Alberta
Iowa State University
University of Freiburg
Sorbonne Université
Institute for High Energy Physics
University of Rome La Sapienza

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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∗.

Original language	English
Article number	032008
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	106
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.032008
State	Published - 1 Aug 2022

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Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Australian Research Council
La Caixa Banking Foundation
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
National Stroke Foundation
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
National Science Foundation
CEA-DRF
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Israel Science Foundation
Wallenberg Foundation
Leverhulme Trust
PROMETEO
Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation
Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS
Generalitat de Catalunya
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft
Austrian Science Fund
Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Canarie
Göran Gustafssons Stiftelser
MIZŠ
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Neurosurgical Research Foundation
Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja
U.S. Department of Energy
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
EU-ESF
RGC
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
MES of Russia
National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
GIF, Israel
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science
GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana, Spain
Cantons of Bern and Geneva
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Defence Science Institute
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Compute Canada
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
European Research Council
Royal Society of South Australia
European Regional Development Fund
IRFU
CERN
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
National Research Council Canada
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
Horizon 2020
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Azərbaycan Milli Elmlər Akademiyası
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/S000747/1
Norwegian Financial Mechanism	2014-2021
DNSRC	IN2P3-CNRS

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

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