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Properties of g→b¯b at small opening angles in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV

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Properties of g→b¯b at small opening angles in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV. / Collaboration, ATLAS; Barton, A.E.; Bertram, I.A. et al.
In: Physical Review D, Vol. 99, No. 5, 052004, 14.03.2019.

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@article{7579123a74694244b958411f530d66d0,
title = "Properties of g→b¯b at small opening angles in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV",
abstract = "The fragmentation of high-energy gluons at small opening angles is largely unconstrained by present measurements. Gluon splitting to b-quark pairs is a unique probe into the properties of gluon fragmentation because identified b-tagged jets provide a proxy for the quark daughters of the initial gluon. In this study, key differential distributions related to the g→bb process are measured using 33 fb-1 of s=13 TeV pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2016. Jets constructed from charged-particle tracks, clustered with the anti-kt jet algorithm with radius parameter R=0.2, are used to probe angular scales below the R=0.4 jet radius. The observables are unfolded to particle level in order to facilitate direct comparisons with predictions from present and future simulations. Multiple significant differences are observed between the data and parton shower Monte Carlo predictions, providing input to improve these predictions of the main source of background events in analyses involving boosted Higgs bosons decaying into b-quarks. {\textcopyright} 2019 CERN.",
author = "ATLAS Collaboration and A.E. Barton and I.A. Bertram and G. Borissov and E.V. Bouhova-Thacker and H. Fox and R.C.W. Henderson and R.W.L. Jones and V. Kartvelishvili and R.E. Long and P.A. Love and D. Muenstermann and A.J. Parker and M. Smizanska and A.S. Tee and J. Walder and A.M. Wharton and B.W. Whitmore",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.99.052004",
language = "English",
volume = "99",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "1550-7998",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "5",

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Properties of g→b¯b at small opening angles in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV

AU - Collaboration, ATLAS

AU - Barton, A.E.

AU - Bertram, I.A.

AU - Borissov, G.

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, E.V.

AU - Fox, H.

AU - Henderson, R.C.W.

AU - Jones, R.W.L.

AU - Kartvelishvili, V.

AU - Long, R.E.

AU - Love, P.A.

AU - Muenstermann, D.

AU - Parker, A.J.

AU - Smizanska, M.

AU - Tee, A.S.

AU - Walder, J.

AU - Wharton, A.M.

AU - Whitmore, B.W.

PY - 2019/3/14

Y1 - 2019/3/14

N2 - The fragmentation of high-energy gluons at small opening angles is largely unconstrained by present measurements. Gluon splitting to b-quark pairs is a unique probe into the properties of gluon fragmentation because identified b-tagged jets provide a proxy for the quark daughters of the initial gluon. In this study, key differential distributions related to the g→bb process are measured using 33 fb-1 of s=13 TeV pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2016. Jets constructed from charged-particle tracks, clustered with the anti-kt jet algorithm with radius parameter R=0.2, are used to probe angular scales below the R=0.4 jet radius. The observables are unfolded to particle level in order to facilitate direct comparisons with predictions from present and future simulations. Multiple significant differences are observed between the data and parton shower Monte Carlo predictions, providing input to improve these predictions of the main source of background events in analyses involving boosted Higgs bosons decaying into b-quarks. © 2019 CERN.

AB - The fragmentation of high-energy gluons at small opening angles is largely unconstrained by present measurements. Gluon splitting to b-quark pairs is a unique probe into the properties of gluon fragmentation because identified b-tagged jets provide a proxy for the quark daughters of the initial gluon. In this study, key differential distributions related to the g→bb process are measured using 33 fb-1 of s=13 TeV pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2016. Jets constructed from charged-particle tracks, clustered with the anti-kt jet algorithm with radius parameter R=0.2, are used to probe angular scales below the R=0.4 jet radius. The observables are unfolded to particle level in order to facilitate direct comparisons with predictions from present and future simulations. Multiple significant differences are observed between the data and parton shower Monte Carlo predictions, providing input to improve these predictions of the main source of background events in analyses involving boosted Higgs bosons decaying into b-quarks. © 2019 CERN.

U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.052004

DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.052004

M3 - Journal article

VL - 99

JO - Physical Review D

JF - Physical Review D

SN - 1550-7998

IS - 5

M1 - 052004

ER -