Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-01-25
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A596:354-367,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
35 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nima.2008.08.133
The energy measurement of jets produced by b-quarks at hadron colliders suffers from biases due to the peculiarities of the hadronization and decay of the originating B hadron. The impact of these effects can be estimated by reconstructing the mass of Z boson decays into pairs of b-quark jets. From a sample of 584 pb-1 of data collected by the CDF experiment in 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron collider, we show how the Z signal can be identified and measured. Using the reconstructed mass of Z candidates we determine a jet energy scale factor for b-quark jets with a precision better than 2%. This measurement allows a reduction of one of the dominant source of uncertainty in analyses based on high transverse momentum b-quark jets. We also determine, as a cross-check of our analysis, the Z boson cross section in hadronic collisions using the b-bbar final state as sigma x B(Z->b-bbar) = 1578 +636 -410 pb.
Donini Julien
Dorigo Tommaso
Hatakeyama Kenichi
Kwang Shawn
Neu Christopher
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