# ICHEP 2022

Jul 6 – 13, 2022
Bologna, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

## Calibration of the light jet mistag rate of the ATLAS b-tagger using Z + jets events

Jul 8, 2022, 7:05 PM
1h 25m
Bologna, Italy

#### Bologna, Italy

Palazzo della Cultura e dei Congressi
Poster Operation, Performance and Upgrade (Incl. HL-LHC) of Present Detectors

### Speaker

Laura Pereira Sánchez

### Description

Many analyses in ATLAS rely on the identification of jets containing b-hadrons
(b-jets). The corresponding algorithms are referred to as b-taggers. A deep
neural network based b-tagger, DL1r, has been widely used in ATLAS Run 2
physics analyses. Its performance needs to be measured in data to correct the
simulation. In particular, the measurement of the mis-tag rate for light jets is
extremely challenging given the very powerful light jet rejection of DL1r.
Therefore, the so-called "negative tag method" was developed which relies on a
modified tagger, designed to decrease the b-jet efficiency while retaining the
same light jet response. This work presents the recently published light jet
mis-tag rate measurement in Z + jets events using 139 fb^-1 of data from pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 13 TeV, collected with the ATLAS detector. The
precision is greatly improved compared to the previous iteration thanks to
improved inner detector modeling and more sophisticated systematic uncertainty
evaluations. This work has been widely applied in ATLAS Run 2 physics analyses.

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