8–13 Aug 2011
Rhode Island Convention Center
US/Eastern timezone

Measurements of inclusive B-quark production at 7 TeV with the CMS experiment

12 Aug 2011, 16:22
20m
554 (Rhode Island Convention Center)

554

Rhode Island Convention Center

Parallel contribution Heavy Flavor Physics (bottom, charm, tau) Heavy Flavor Physics

Speaker

gemma Tinti (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Kansas)

Description

Measurements performed by the CMS experiment of the cross section for inclusive b-quark production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV are presented. The measurements are based on different methods, such as inclusive jet measurements with secondary vertex tagging or selecting a sample of events containing jets and at least one muon, where the transverse momentum of the muon with respect to the closest jet axis discriminates b events from the background. The results are compared with predictions based on perturbative QCD calculations at leading and next-to-leading order.

Primary author

gemma Tinti (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Kansas)

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