%0 Journal Article %T Measurement of the cross section for the production of a W boson in association with b-jets in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector %A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al %A Amoros, G. %A Cabrera Urban, S. %A Castillo Gimenez, V. %A Costa, M. J. %A Escobar, C. %A Ferrer, A. %A Fiorini, L. %A Fuster, J. %A Garcia, C. %A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. %A Hernandez Jimenez, Y. %A Higon-Rodriguez, E. %A Irles Quiles, A. %A Kaci, M. %A Lacasta, C. %A Lacuesta, V. R. %A Marti-Garcia, S. %A Miñano, M. %A Mitsou, V. A. %A Moles-Valls, R. %A Moreno Llacer, M. %A Oliver Garcia, E. %A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. %A Ros, E. %A Salt, J. %A Solans, C. A. %A Soldevila, U. %A Sanchez, J. %A Torro Pastor, E. %A Valladolid Gallego, E. %A Valls Ferrer, J. A. %A Villaplana Perez, M. %A Vos, M. %A Wildauer, A. %J Physics Letters B %D 2012 %V 707 %N 5 %I Elsevier Science Bv %@ 0370-2693 %G English %F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2012 %O WOS:000300211000002 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=917), last updated on Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:44:24 +0000 %X A measurement is presented of the cross section for the production of a W boson with one or two jets, of which at least one must be a b-jet, in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV. Production via top decay is not included in the signal definition. The measurement is based on 35 pb(-1) of data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The W + b-jet cross section is defined for jets reconstructed with the anti-k(t) clustering algorithm with transverse momentum above 25 GeV and rapidity within +/-2.1. The b-jets are identified by reconstructing secondary vertices. The fiducial cross section is measured both for the electron and muon decay channel of the W boson and is found to be 10.2 +/- 1.9(stat) +/- 2.6(syst) pb for one lepton flavour. The results are compared with next-to-leading order QCD calculations, which predict a cross section smaller than, though consistent with, the measured value. %R 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.046 %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1470 %U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.046 %P 418-437