TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al AU - Amoros, G. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Escobar, C. AU - Ferrer, A. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Hernandez Jimenez, Y. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Irles Quiles, A. AU - Kaci, M. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lacuesta, V. R. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Miñano, M. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Moles-Valls, R. AU - Moreno Llacer, M. AU - Oliver Garcia, E. AU - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. AU - Ros, E. AU - Salt, J. AU - Solans, C. A. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Torro Pastor, E. AU - Valladolid Gallego, E. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Villaplana Perez, M. AU - Vos, M. AU - Wildauer, A. PY - 2012 DA - 2012// TI - 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 T2 - Phys. Lett. B JO - Physics Letters B SP - 418 EP - 437 VL - 707 IS - 5 PB - Elsevier Science Bv AB - 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. SN - 0370-2693 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1470 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.046 DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.046 LA - English N1 - WOS:000300211000002 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2012 ER -