28 July 2020 to 6 August 2020
virtual conference
Europe/Prague timezone

V+heavy flavor jets and constraints to PDFs in CMS

28 Jul 2020, 16:30
15m
virtual conference

virtual conference

Talk 06. Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics

Speaker

Anton Stepennov (Inst. for Theoretical and Exp. Phys.)

Description

The associated production of vector bosons V (W, Z or gamma) and jets originating from heavy-flavour (c or b) quarks is a large background source in measurements of other standard model processes, Higgs boson studies, and many searches for physics beyond the SM. The study of events with a vector boson accompanied by heavy-flavour jets is crucial to refine the theoretical calculations in perturbative QCD, as well as to validate associated Monte Carlo predictions. Differential cross sections in V+ c/b jets are measured as a function of several kinematic observables with the CMS detector at 8 and 13 TeV. The study of the associated production of a vector boson with jets from a c-quark is especially interesting, as it allows to extract information on the proton parton density functions.

Secondary track (number) 04.

Primary author

Anton Stepennov (Inst. for Theoretical and Exp. Phys.)

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