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Study of hard double-parton scattering in four-jet events in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

Aaboud, M. and Aad, G. and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J. and Abdinov, O. and Krasznahorkay, Attila and Pásztor, Gabriella and Tóth, József (2016) Study of hard double-parton scattering in four-jet events in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2016 (11). ISSN 1126-6708

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Abstract

Inclusive four-jet events produced in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of√s = 7 TeV are analysed for the presence of hard double-parton scattering using data corres- ponding to an integrated luminosity of 37.3 pb−1, collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The contribution of hard double-parton scattering to the production of four-jet events is extracted using an artificial neural network, assuming that hard double-parton scattering can be approximated by an uncorrelated overlaying of dijet events. For events containing at least four jets with transverse momentum pT ≥ 20 GeV and pseudorapidity |η| ≤ 4.4, and at least one having pT ≥ 42.5 GeV, the contribution of hard double-parton scattering is estim- ated to be fDPS = 0.092 +0.005 −0.011 (stat.) +0.033 −0.037 (syst.). After combining this measurement with those of the inclusive dijet and four-jet cross-sections in the appropriate phase space regions, the effective cross-section, σeff , was determined to be σeff = 14.9 +1.2 −1.0 (stat.) +5.1 −3.8 (syst.) mb. This result is consistent within the quoted uncertainties with previous measurements of σeff , performed at centre-of-mass energies between 63 GeV and 8 TeV using various final states, and it corresponds to 21+7 −6% of the total inelastic cross-section measured at √s = 7 TeV. The distributions of the observables sensitive to the contribution of hard double-parton scattering, corrected for detector effects, are also provided.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QC Physics / fizika
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 14 Sep 2023 13:34
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2023 13:35
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/173604

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