A study of the associated production of a Z boson and a charm quark jet (Z+c), and a comparison to production with a b quark jet (Z+b), in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV are presented. The analysis uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7fb−1, collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The Z boson candidates are identified through their decays into pairs of electrons or muons. Jets originating from heavy flavour quarks are identified using semileptonic decays of c or b flavoured hadrons and hadronic decays of charm hadrons. The measurements are performed in the kinematic region with two leptons with pℓT>20GeV, |ηℓ|<2.1, 71<mℓℓ<111GeV, and heavy flavour jets with pjetT>25GeV and |ηjet|<2.5. The Z+c production cross section is measured to be σ(pp→Z+c+X)B(Z→ℓ+ℓ−)=8.8±0.5(stat)±0.6(syst)pb. The ratio of the Z+c and Z+b production cross sections is measured to be σ(pp→Z+c+X)/σ(pp→Z+b+X)=2.0±0.2(stat)±0.2(syst). The Z+c production cross section and the cross section ratio are also measured as a function of the transverse momentum of the Z boson and of the heavy flavour jet. The measurements are compared with theoretical predictions.

Measurement of associated Z+charm production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CANDELISE, V.;DELLA RICCA, G.;
2018-01-01

Abstract

A study of the associated production of a Z boson and a charm quark jet (Z+c), and a comparison to production with a b quark jet (Z+b), in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV are presented. The analysis uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7fb−1, collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The Z boson candidates are identified through their decays into pairs of electrons or muons. Jets originating from heavy flavour quarks are identified using semileptonic decays of c or b flavoured hadrons and hadronic decays of charm hadrons. The measurements are performed in the kinematic region with two leptons with pℓT>20GeV, |ηℓ|<2.1, 7125GeV and |ηjet|<2.5. The Z+c production cross section is measured to be σ(pp→Z+c+X)B(Z→ℓ+ℓ−)=8.8±0.5(stat)±0.6(syst)pb. The ratio of the Z+c and Z+b production cross sections is measured to be σ(pp→Z+c+X)/σ(pp→Z+b+X)=2.0±0.2(stat)±0.2(syst). The Z+c production cross section and the cross section ratio are also measured as a function of the transverse momentum of the Z boson and of the heavy flavour jet. The measurements are compared with theoretical predictions.
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