Identification of b-quark jets with the CMS experiment

CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberP04013
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume8
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2013

Keywords

  • Large detector-systems performance
  • Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting methods
  • Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Instrumentation
  • Mathematical Physics

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