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Measurement of the cross section for the production of a W boson in association with b-jets in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Measurement of the cross section for the production of a W boson in association with b-jets in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Physics Letters B, Vol. 707, No. 5, 07.02.2012, p. 418-437.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2012, 'Measurement of the cross section for the production of a W boson in association with b-jets in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physics Letters B, vol. 707, no. 5, pp. 418-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.046

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The ATLAS collaboration (2012). Measurement of the cross section for the production of a W boson in association with b-jets in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 707(5), 418-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.046

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The ATLAS collaboration. Measurement of the cross section for the production of a W boson in association with b-jets in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B. 2012 Feb 7;707(5):418-437. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.046

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Measurement of the cross section for the production of a W boson in association with b-jets in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Physics Letters B. 2012 ; Vol. 707, No. 5. pp. 418-437.

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abstract = " A measurement is presented of the cross section for the production of a W boson with one or two jets, of which at least one must be a b-jet, in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV. Production via top decay is not included in the signal definition. The measurement is based on 35 pb(-1) of data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The W + b-jet cross section is defined for jets reconstructed with the anti-k(t) clustering algorithm with transverse momentum above 25 GeV and rapidity within +/-2.1. The b-jets are identified by reconstructing secondary vertices. The fiducial cross section is measured both for the electron and muon decay channel of the W boson and is found to be 10.2 +/- 1.9(stat) +/- 2.6(syst) pb for one lepton flavour. The results are compared with next-to-leading order QCD calculations, which predict a cross section smaller than, though consistent with, the measured value. ",
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AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

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