@article{d66ca6e5178e4e278aae5b24fbabd059,
title = "Measurement of b-hadron pair production with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV",
abstract = "A measurement of b-hadron pair production is presented, based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 11.4 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions recorded at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are selected in which a b-hadron is reconstructed in a decay channel containing J/ψ → μμ, and a second b-hadron is reconstructed in a decay channel containing a muon. Results are presented in a fiducial volume defined by kinematic requirements on three muons based on those used in the analysis. The fiducial cross section is measured to be 17.7 ± 0.1(stat.) ± 2.0(syst.) nb. A number of normalised differential cross sections are also measured, and compared to predictions from the Pythia8, Herwig++, MadGraph5_aMC@NLO+Pythia8 and Sherpa event generators, providing new constraints on heavy flavour production.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].",
keywords = "B physics, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), P(P)OVER-BAR COLLISIONS, QUARK PRODUCTION, PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS, PRODUCTION CROSS-SECTIONS",
author = "{The ATLAS collaboration} and M. Aaboud and G. Aad and B. Abbott and J. Abdallah and O. Abdinov and B. Abeloos and Abidi, {S. H.} and AbouZeid, {O. S.} and Abraham, {N. L.} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and R. Abreu and Y. Abulaiti and Acharya, {B. S.} and S. Adachi and L. Adamczyk and J. Adelman and M. Adersberger and T. Adye and Affolder, {A. A.} and T. Agatonovic-Jovin and C. Agheorghiesei and Aguilar-Saavedra, {J. A.} and Ahlen, {S. P.} and F. Ahmadov and G. Aielli and S. Akatsuka and H. Akerstedt and {\AA}kesson, {T. P.A.} and E. Akilli and Akimov, {A. V.} and Alberghi, {G. L.} and J. Albert and P. Albicocco and {Alconada Verzini}, {M. J.} and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, {I. N.} and C. Alexa and G. Alexander and T. Alexopoulos and Anisenkov, {A. V.} and Baldin, {E. M.} and Bobrovnikov, {V. S.} and Buzykaev, {A. R.} and Kazanin, {V. F.} and T. Kharlamova and Korol, {A. A.} and Peleganchuk, {S. V.} and Talyshev, {A. A.} and Tikhonov, {Yu A.}",
year = "2017",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP11(2017)062",
language = "English",
volume = "2017",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1029-8479",
publisher = "Springer US",
number = "11",
}