%0 Journal Article %T Measurements of the production cross-section for a Z boson in association with b-jets in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector %A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al %A Aparisi Pozo, J. A. %A Bailey, A. J. %A Cabrera Urban, S. %A Castillo, F. L. %A Castillo Gimenez, V. %A Cerda Alberich, L. %A Costa, M. J. %A Escobar, C. %A Estrada Pastor, O. %A Ferrer, A. %A Fiorini, L. %A Fullana Torregrosa, E. %A Fuster, J. %A Garcia, C. %A Garcia Navarro, J. E. %A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. %A Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R. %A Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R. %A Higon-Rodriguez, E. %A Lacasta, C. %A Lozano Bahilo, J. J. %A Madaffari, D. %A Mamuzic, J. %A Marti-Garcia, S. %A Martinez Agullo, P. %A MiƱano, M. %A Mitsou, V. A. %A Moreno Llacer, M. %A Poveda, J. %A Rodriguez Bosca, S. %A Rodriguez Rodriguez, D. %A Ruiz-Martinez, A. %A Salt, J. %A Santra, A. %A Soldevila, U. %A Sanchez, J. %A Valero, A. %A Valls Ferrer, J. A. %A Vos, M. %J Journal of High Energy Physics %D 2020 %V 07 %N 7 %I Springer %@ 1029-8479 %G English %F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2020 %O WOS:000566576600001 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=4527), last updated on Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:23:00 +0000 %X This paper presents a measurement of the production cross-section of aZboson in association withb-jets, in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.6 fb(-1). Inclusive and differential cross-sections are measured for events containing aZboson decaying into electrons or muons and produced in association with at least one or at least two b-jets with transverse momentum p(T)>20 GeV and rapidity vertical bar y vertical bar <2.5. Predictions from several Monte Carlo generators based on leading-order (LO) or next-to-leading-order (NLO) matrix elements interfaced with a parton-shower simulation and testing different flavour schemes for the choice of initial-state partons are compared with measured cross-sections. The 5-flavour number scheme predictions at NLO accuracy agree better with data than 4-flavour number scheme ones. The 4-flavour number scheme predictions underestimate data in events with at least one b-jet. %K Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) %R 10.1007/JHEP07(2020)044 %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11960 %U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)044 %P 044-58pp