PT Journal
AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea
   Cabrera Urban, S
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Costa, MJ
   Ferrer, A
   Fiorini, L
   Fuster, J
   Garcia, C
   Garcia Navarro, JE
   Gonzalez de la Hoz, S
   Hernandez Jimenez, Y
   Higon-Rodriguez, E
   Irles Quiles, A
   Kaci, M
   Lacasta, C
   Lacuesta, VR
   Marti-Garcia, S
   Miñano, M
   Mitsou, VA
   Moles-Valls, R
   Moreno Llacer, M
   Oliver Garcia, E
   Perez Garcia-Estañ, MT
   Romero Adam, E
   Ros, E
   Salt, J
   Sanchez Martinez, V
   Solans, CA
   Soldevila, U
   Sanchez, J
   Torro Pastor, E
   Valero, A
   Valladolid Gallego, E
   Valls Ferrer, JA
   Villaplana Perez, M
   Vos, M
   Wildauer, A
TI Measurement of the b-hadron production cross section using decays to D*(+)mu X- final states in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
SO Nuclear Physics B
JI Nucl. Phys. B
PY 2012
BP 341
EP 381
VL 864
IS 3
DI 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.07.009
LA English
DE QCD; Flavour physics; B physics; Heavy quark production
AB The b-hadron production cross section is measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV, using 3.3 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity, collected during the 2010 LHC run. The b-hadrons are selected by partially reconstructing D*(+)mu X- final states. Differential cross sections are measured as functions of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity. The measured production cross section for a b-hadron with p(T) > 9 GeV and vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2.5 is 32.7 +/- 0.8(stat.)(-6.8)(+4.5)(syst.) μb, higher than the next-to-leading-order QCD predictions but consistent within the experimental and theoretical uncertainties.
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