CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Note
Report number	ATLAS-CONF-2014-004
Title	Calibration of $b$-tagging using dileptonic top pair events in a combinatorial likelihood approach with the ATLAS experiment
Corporate Author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Imprint	25 Feb 2014. - 20 p.
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	Flavour tagging calibration ; TOP ; BTAGGING
Abstract	This note presents a new method to derive the $b$-jet tagging efficiency from data using a combinatorial likelihood approach applied to dileptonic $t\bar{t}$ events. Calibration results are obtained for the $pp$ collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$. The $b$-jet tagging efficiency measurements are provided in the form of jet transverse momentum dependent scale factors which correct the $b$-tagging performance in simulation to that observed in data. The scale factors have been measured in the range 20-300 GeV and have a total uncertainty $\sim 2%$ for jets with transverse momenta around 100 GeV. This represents a significant improvement in precision compared to alternative calibration methods.

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