Measurement of four-jet differential cross sections in $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS detector

• Main Author: ATLAS collaboration (2857 authors)
• Publication Date: 2015
• Other Authors: Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio, Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia, Anjos, Nuno, Araque, Juan Pedro, Cantrill, Robert, Carvalho, João, Castro, Nuno Filipe, Conde Muiño, Patricia, Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose, Fiolhais, Miguel, Galhardo, Bruno, Gomes, Agostinho, Gonçalo, Ricardo, Jorge, Pedro, Lopes, Lourenco, Machado Miguens, Joana, Maio, Amélia, Maneira, José, Onofre, António, Palma, Alberto, Pedro, Rute, Pina, João Antonio, Santos, Helena, Saraiva, João, Silva, José, Tavares Delgado, Ademar, Veloso, Filipe, Wolters, Helmut
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)105; http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26940

Differential cross sections for the production of at least four jets have been measured in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=8 $ TeV at the Large Hadron Collider using the ATLAS detector. Events are selected if the four anti-k$_{t}$ R = 0.4 jets with the largest transverse momentum (p$_{T}$) within the rapidity range |y| < 2.8 are well separated (ΔR$_{4j}^{min}$  > 0.65), all have p$_{T}$ > 64 GeV, and include at least one jet with p$_{T}$ > 100 GeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{−}^{1}$ . The cross sections, corrected for detector effects, are compared to leading-order and next-to-leading-order calculations as a function of the jet momenta, invariant masses, minimum and maximum opening angles and other kinematic variables.