Measurement of the c-jet mistagging efficiency in tt̅ events using pp collision data at √s = 13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector

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Abstract

A technique is presented to measure the efficiency with which c-jets are mistagged as b-jets (mistagging efficiency) using tt̅ events, where one of the W bosons decays into an electron or muon and a neutrino and the other decays into a quark–antiquark pair. The measurement utilises the relatively large and known W→cs branching ratio, which allows a measurement to be made in an inclusive c-jet sample. The data sample used was collected by the ATLAS detector at √s = 13 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Events are reconstructed using a kinematic likelihood technique which selects the mapping between jets and tt̅ decay products that yields the highest likelihood value. The distribution of the b-tagging discriminant for jets from the hadronic W decays in data is compared with that in simulation to extract the mistagging efficiency as a function of jet transverse momentum. The total uncertainties are in the range 3–17%. The measurements generally agree with those in simulation but there are some differences in the region corresponding to the most stringent b-jet tagging requirement.
Original languageEnglish
Article number95
Number of pages27
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume82
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Jan 2022

Bibliographical note

39 pages in total, author list starting page 23, 6 figures, 2 tables, published in EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/FTAG-2020-08

Keywords

  • hep-ex

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