Measurement of the associated production of a Z boson with charm or bottom quark jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV

Abstract

Ratios of cross sections, $\sigma$(Z+c jets) / $\sigma$(Z+jets), $\sigma$(Z+b jets) / $\sigma$(Z+jets), and $\sigma$(Z+c jets) / $\sigma$(Z+b jets) in the associated production of a Z boson with at least one charm or bottom quark jet are measured in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV. The data sample, collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb${}^{-1}$, with a fiducial volume of $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ $>$ 30 GeV and $|\eta |$ $<$ 2.4 for the jets, where $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ and $\eta$ represent transverse momentum and pseudorapidity, respectively. The Z boson candidates come from leptonic decays into electrons or muons with $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ $>$ 25 GeV and $|\eta |$ $<$ 2.4, and the dilepton mass satisfies 71 $<$ $m_{\mathrm{Z}}$ $<$ 111 GeV. The measured values are $\sigma$(Z+c jets) / $\sigma$(Z+jets) = 0.102 $\pm$ 0.002 $\pm$ 0.009, $\sigma$(Z+b jets) / $\sigma$(Z+jets) = 0.0633 $\pm$ 0.0004 $\pm$ 0.0015, and $\sigma$(Z+c jets) / $\sigma$(Z+b jets) = 1.62 $\pm$ 0.03 $\pm$ 0.15. Results on the inclusive and differential cross section ratios as functions of jet and Z boson transverse momentum are compared with predictions from leading and next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations. These are the first measurements of the cross section ratios at 13 TeV.

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