Studies of inclusive four-jet production with two b-tagged jets in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV

Khachatryan, V. and Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Asilar, E. and Filipovic, Nicolas and Bencze, György and Hajdú, Csaba and Hidas, Pál and Horváth, Dezső and Siklér, Ferenc and Veszprémi, Viktor and Vesztergombi, György and Zsigmond, Anna Júlia and Makovec, Alajos and Molnár, József and Bartók, Márton and Trócsányi, Zoltán and Ujvári, Balázs and Veres, Gábor (2016) Studies of inclusive four-jet production with two b-tagged jets in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 94 (11). ISSN 2470-0010

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Abstract

Measurements are presented of the cross section for the production of at least four jets, of which at least two originate from b quarks, in proton-proton collisions. Data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 pb−1. The cross section is mea- sured as a function of the jet transverse momentum for pT > 20 GeV, and of the jet pseudorapidity for |η| < 2.4 (b jets), 4.7 (untagged jets). The correlations in azimuthal angle and pT between the jets are also studied. The inclusive cross section is measured to be σ(pp → 2b + 2j + X) = 69 ± 3 (stat) ± 24 (syst) nb. The η and pT distributions of the four jets and the correlations between them are well reproduced by event gener- ators that combine perturbative QCD calculations at next-to-leading-order accuracy with contributions from parton showers and multiparton interactions.

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