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Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Bottom Quarks at ATLAS pp 67–83Cite as

Dark Matter + Higgs(\(\rightarrow b\bar{b}\)): Physics Objects

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This chapter describes the physics objects used in this analysis, including the lists of samples from data and simulated background processes, and the physical and kinematic variables constructed that are used to identify the events and separate background from signal.

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    Proton–proton collision vertices are reconstructed requiring that at least five tracks withp T  > 0. 5 GeV are associated with a given vertex.

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Cheng, Y. (2017). Dark Matter + Higgs(\(\rightarrow b\bar{b}\)): Physics Objects. In: Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Bottom Quarks at ATLAS. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44218-1_8

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