Identification of boosted Higgs bosons decaying into b-quark pairs with the ATLAS detector at 13 TeV

dc.contributor.authorAad, G.
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, B.
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, D.C.
dc.contributor.authorAbdinov, O.
dc.contributor.authorAbed Abud, A.
dc.contributor.authorAbeling, K.
dc.contributor.authorAbhayasinghe, D.K.
dc.contributor.authorAbidi, S.H.
dc.contributor.authorAbouZeid, O.S.
dc.contributor.authorAbraham, N.L.
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Justin
dc.contributor.authorAnelli, Christopher R.
dc.contributor.authorChiu, Y.H.
dc.contributor.authorGhasemi Bostanabad, M.
dc.contributor.authorHamano, Kenji
dc.contributor.authorHill, Ewan Chin
dc.contributor.authorKay, E. F.
dc.contributor.authorKeeler, Richard
dc.contributor.authorKowalewski, Robert
dc.contributor.authorLefebvre, Michel
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-10T00:36:48Z
dc.date.available2020-11-10T00:36:48Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes a study of techniques for identifying Higgs bosons at high transverse momenta decaying into bottom-quark pairs, H→bb¯, for proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy s√=13 TeV. These decays are reconstructed from calorimeter jets found with the anti-kt R=1.0 jet algorithm. To tag Higgs bosons, a combination of requirements is used: b-tagging of R=0.2 track-jets matched to the large-R calorimeter jet, and requirements on the jet mass and other jet substructure variables. The Higgs boson tagging efficiency and corresponding multijet and hadronic top-quark background rejections are evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation. Several benchmark tagging selections are defined for different signal efficiency targets. The modelling of the relevant input distributions used to tag Higgs bosons is studied in 36 fb−1 of data collected in 2015 and 2016 using g→bb¯ and Z(→bb¯)γ event selections in data. Both processes are found to be well modelled within the statistical and systematic uncertainties.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS,MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIEN-CIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, The Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, UK; DOE and NSF, USA. In addition, individual groups and members have received support fromBCKDF,CANARIE,CRCandComputeCanada, Canada; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, and Marie Skłodowska- Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d’ Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF,Greece; BSF-NSF and GIF, Israel;CERCAProgramme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, UK. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CCIN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NLT1 (The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D. C., Abdinov, O., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., … Zwalinski, L. (2019). Identification of boosted Higgs bosons decaying into b-quark pairs with the ATLAS detector at 13. The European Physical Journal C, 79(10). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7335-xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7335-x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12323
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe European Physical Journal Cen_US
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomy
dc.titleIdentification of boosted Higgs bosons decaying into b-quark pairs with the ATLAS detector at 13 TeVen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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