Date of Award

1-1-2019

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Physics

Content Description

1 online resource (xxv, 223 pages) : color illustrations.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Vivek Jain

Committee Members

Nicholas Styles, Oleg Lunin, Daniel Robbins, Jonathan Petruccelli

Keywords

Quarks, Z bosons, Hadron colliders

Subject Categories

Physics

Abstract

This thesis uses 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector situated at the Large Hadron Collider at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV to measure the associated production of Z bosons with b-quark jets. The differential cross-sections for events containing a Z boson with 1 and 2 additional b-quark-jets are measured and compared with leading and next-to-leading order theoretical predictions.

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