W/Z + jets and W/Z + heavy flavor production at the LHC

Abstract

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC conduct an extensive program to study production of events with a W or Z boson and particle jets. Dedicated studies focus on final states with the jets containing decays of heavy-flavor hadrons (b-tagged jets). The results are obtained using data from proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s}=7 TeV from the LHC at CERN. The set of measurements constitute a stringent test of the perturbative QCD calculations.

arXiv comment4 pages, proceedings of the 47th Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, 10-17 Mar 2012