Measurement of WZ and ZZ production in pp collisions at in final states with b-tagged jets

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2014
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Measurements are reported of the WZ and ZZ production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at (\sqrt{s})=8TeV in final states where one Z boson decays to b-tagged jets. The other gauge boson, either W or Z, is detected through its leptonic decay (either (W \to e\upsilon, \mu\upsilon) or (Z \to e^+e^-), (\mu^+\mu^-), or (\upsilon\overline{\upsilon})). The results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.9 fb⁻¹ collected with the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The measured cross sections, (\sigma(pp \to WZ)) = 30.7 ± 9.3 (stat.) ±7.1 (syst.) ±4.1 (th.) ±1.0 (lum.) pb and (\sigma(pp \to ZZ)) = 6.5 ± 1.7 (stat.) ± 1.0 (syst.) ± 0.9 (th.) ± 0.2 (lum.) pb, are consistent with next-to-leading order quantum chromodynamics calculations.

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Physics, Particles & Fields, Physics
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Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., Erö, J., Fabjan, C., Friedl, M., Frühwirth, R., Ghete, V. M., Hartl, C., Hörmann, N., Hrubec, J., Jeitler, M., Kiesenhofer, W., Knünz, V., … Woods, N. (2014). Measurement of WZ and ZZ production in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8\,\text {TeV} $ $\sqrt{s}$=8TeV in final states with b-tagged jets. In The European Physical Journal C (Vol. 74, Issue 8). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2973-5