CMS Collaboration2015-07-162015-07-162013CMS Collaboration. "Measurement of the cross section and angular correlations for associated production of a Z boson with b hadrons in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV." <i>Journal of High Energy Physics,</i> 2013, no. 39 (2013) Springer: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2013)039.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/81040A study of proton-proton collisions in which two b hadrons are produced in association with a Z boson is reported. The collisions were recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeVwith the CMS detector at the LHC, for an integrated luminosity of 5.2 fb−1. The b hadrons are identified by means of displaced secondary vertices, without the use of reconstructed jets, permitting the study of b-hadron pair production at small angular separation. Differential cross sections are presented as a function of the angular separation of the b hadrons and the Z boson. In addition, inclusive measurements are presented. For both the inclusive and differential studies, different ranges of Z boson momentum are considered, and each measurement is compared to the predictions from different event generators at leading-order and next-to-leading-order accuracy.engJHEP is an open-access journal funded by SCOAP3 and licensed under CC BY 4.0Journal articleHadron-Hadron Scatteringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2013)039