Measurement of jet activity in top quark events using the eμ final state with two b-tagged jets in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aaboud, M. and Aad, G. and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J. and Abdinov, O. and Krasznahorkay, Attila and Pásztor, Gabriella and Tóth, József (2016) Measurement of jet activity in top quark events using the eμ final state with two b-tagged jets in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (9). ISSN 1126-6708

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Abstract

Measurements of the jet activity in t¯t events produced in proton–proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV are presented, using 20.3 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The events were selected in the dilepton eμ decay channel with two identified b-jets. The numbers of additional jets for various jet transverse momentum (pT) thresholds, and the normalised differential cross-sections as a function of pT for the five highest-pT additional jets, were measured in the jet pseudorapidity range |η| < 4.5. The gap fraction, the fraction of events which do not contain an additional jet in a central rapidity re- gion, was measured for several rapidity intervals as a function of the minimum pT of a single jet or the scalar sum of pT of all additional jets. These fractions were also measured in differ- ent intervals of the invariant mass of the eμb¯b system. All measurements were corrected for detector effects, and found to be mostly well-described by predictions from next-to-leading- order and leading-order t¯t event generators with appropriate parameter choices. The results can be used to further optimise the parameters used in such generators.

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