Identification of b-quark jets with the CMS experiment
At the Large Hadron Collider, the identification of jets originating from b quarks is important for searches for new physics and for measurements of standard model processes. A variety of algorithms has been developed by CMS to select b-quark jets based on variables such as the impact parameters of charged-particle tracks, the properties of reconstructed decay vertices, and the presence or absence of a lepton, or combinations thereof. The performance of these algorithms has been measured using data from proton-proton collisions at the LHC and compared with expectations based on simulation. The data used in this study were recorded in 2011 at √s = 7 TeV for a total integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb(-1). The efficiency for tagging b-quark jets has been measured in events from multijet and t-quark pair production. CMS has achieved a b-jet tagging efficiency of 85% for a light-parton misidentification probability of 10% in multijet events. For analyses requiring higher purity, a misidentification probability of only 1.5% has been achieved, for a 70% b-jet tagging efficiency.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- CMS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1406477
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-12-780-CMS; CMS-BTV-12-001; CERN-PH-EP-2012-262; arXiv:1211.4462; 1203133
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 8, Issue 04; ISSN 1748-0221
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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