The identification of jets originating from quarks and gluons, often referred to as quark/gluon tagging, plays an important role in various analyses performed at the Large Hadron Collider, as Standard Model measurements and searches for new particles decaying to quarks often rely on suppressing a large gluon-induced background. This paper describes the measurement of the efficiencies of quark/gluon taggers developed within the ATLAS Collaboration, using $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV proton–proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb $^{-1}$ collected by the ATLAS experiment. Two taggers with high performances in rejecting jets from gluon over jets from quarks are studied: one tagger is based on requirements on the number of inner-detector tracks associated with the jet, and the other combines several jet substructure observables using a boosted decision tree. A method is established to determine the quark/gluon fraction in data, by using quark/gluon-enriched subsamples defined by the jet pseudorapidity. Differences in tagging efficiency between data and simulation are provided for jets with transverse momentum between 500 GeV and 2 TeV and for multiple tagger working points.

France

G. Aad

B. Abbott

Germany

K. Abeling

N.J. Abicht

S.H. Abidi

Morocco

A. Aboulhorma

Israel

H. Abramowicz

H. Abreu

Y. Abulaiti

Italy

United Kingdom

B.S. Acharya

C. Adam Bourdarios

Poland

L. Adamczyk

S.V. Addepalli

M.J. Addison

J. Adelman

A. Adiguzel

T. Adye

A.A. Affolder

Switzerland

Y. Afik

Spain

M.N. Agaras

J. Agarwala

A. Aggarwal

Romania

C. Agheorghiesei

A. Ahmad

Azerbaijan

F. Ahmadov

Canada

W.S. Ahmed

S. Ahuja

X. Ai

G. Aielli

A. Aikot

M. Ait Tamlihat

B. Aitbenchikh

I. Aizenberg

M. Akbiyik

Sweden

T.P.A. Åkesson

A.V. Akimov

Japan

D. Akiyama

N.N. Akolkar

K. Al Khoury

G.L. Alberghi

J. Albert

P. Albicocco

G.L. Albouy

S. Alderweireldt

M. Aleksa

I.N. Aleksandrov

C. Alexa

Greece

T. Alexopoulos

F. Alfonsi

M. Algren

M. Alhroob

Czechia

B. Ali

H.M.J. Ali

S. Ali

S.W. Alibocus

M. Aliev

G. Alimonti

W. Alkakhi

C. Allaire

B.M.M. Allbrooke

J.F. Allen

Chile

C.A. Allendes Flores

P.P. Allport

A. Aloisio

Argentina

F. Alonso

C. Alpigiani

M. Alvarez Estevez

A. Alvarez Fernandez

M. Alves Cardoso

M.G. Alviggi

M. Aly

Brazil

Y. Amaral Coutinho

A. Ambler

C. Amelung

M. Amerl

C.G. Ames

D. Amidei

Portugal

S.P. Amor Dos Santos

K.R. Amos

Norway

V. Ananiev

C. Anastopoulos

T. Andeen

J.K. Anders

S.Y. Andrean

A. Andreazza

S. Angelidakis

A. Angerami

A.V. Anisenkov

A. Annovi

C. Antel

M.T. Anthony

E. Antipov

M. Antonelli

F. Anulli

M. Aoki

T. Aoki

J.A. Aparisi Pozo

M.A. Aparo

L. Aperio Bella

C. Appelt

Performance and calibration of quark/gluon-jet taggers using 140 fb$^{−1}$ of $\textit{pp}$ collisions at ${{\sqrt{\boldsymbol s}\bf = 13}}$ TeV with the ATLAS detector * We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; ANID, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; Minciencias, Colombia; MEYS CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS and CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF and MPG, Germany; GSRI, Greece; RGC and Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MEiN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DSI/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taipei; TENMAK, Türkiye; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, CRC and DRAC, Canada; PRIMUS 21/SCI/017 and UNCE SCI/013, Czech Republic; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, ICSC-Next Generation EU and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex, Investissements d'Avenir Idex and ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and MINERVA, Israel; Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021, Norway; NCN and NAWA, Poland; La Caixa Banking Foundation, CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya and PROMETEO and GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse, Sweden; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.

Using lattice configurations for quantum ​​​​​chromodynamics (QCD) generated with three domain-wall fermions at a physical pion mass, we obtain a parameter-free prediction of QCD’s renormalisation-group-invariant process-independent effective charge, 
					. Owing to the dynamical breaking of scale invariance, evident in the emergence of a gluon mass-scale, 
					GeV, this coupling saturates at infrared momenta: 
					. Amongst other things: 
					 is almost identical to the process-dependent (PD) effective charge defined via the Bjorken sum rule; and also that PD charge which, employed in the one-loop evolution equations, delivers agreement between pion parton distribution functions computed at the hadronic scale and experiment. The diversity of unifying roles played by 
					 suggests that it is a strong candidate for that object which represents the interaction strength in QCD at any given momentum scale; and its properties support a conclusion that QCD is a mathematically well-defined quantum field theory in four dimensions.
				

China

Z.-F. Cui

J.-L. Zhang

D. Binosi

F. De Soto

C. Mezrag

J. Papavassiliou

C. D. Roberts

J. Rodríguez-Quintero

J. Segovia

S. Zafeiropoulos

Effective charge from lattice QCD Our  calculations  benefited  from  the  following  resources:  CINES,  GENCI, IDRIS (Project ID 52271); and the IN2P3 Computing Facility.  Work  supported  by National  Natural  ScienceFoundation of  China  (11805097),  Jiangsu  Provincial  Natural  Science  Foundation  of  China (BK20180323). Jiangsu Province Hundred Talents Plan for Professionals; Generalitat Valenciana, under grant Prometeo/2019/087; Spanish Ministry of  Economy  and  Competitiveness  (MINECO) (FPA2017-84543-P)

The production of 
					 baryons in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 
					 is measured in the transverse-momentum range 
					 and the rapidity range 
					. The data used in this measurement correspond to an integrated luminosity of 
					, recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2016. The ratio of the 
					 production cross-section times the branching fraction of the 
					 decay relative to the prompt 
					 production cross-section is found to be 
					, assuming the central value of the measured 
					 lifetime, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.
				

R. Aaij

C. Abellán Beteta

T. Ackernley

B. Adeva

M. Adinolfi

H. Afsharnia

C.A. Aidala

S. Aiola

Z. Ajaltouni

S. Akar

J. Albrecht

F. Alessio

M. Alexander

A. Alfonso Albero

G. Alkhazov

P. Alvarez Cartelle

A.A. Alves Jr

S. Amato

Y. Amhis

L. An

L. Anderlini

G. Andreassi

M. Andreotti

F. Archilli

A. Artamonov

M. Artuso

K. Arzymatov

E. Aslanides

M. Atzeni

B. Audurier

S. Bachmann

J.J. Back

S. Baker

V. Balagura

W. Baldini

A. Baranov

R.J. Barlow

S. Barsuk

W. Barter

M. Bartolini

F. Baryshnikov

J.M. Basels

G. Bassi

V. Batozskaya

B. Batsukh

A. Battig

A. Bay

M. Becker

F. Bedeschi

I. Bediaga

A. Beiter

L.J. Bel

V. Belavin

S. Belin

V. Bellee

K. Belous

I. Belyaev

G. Bencivenni

E. Ben-Haim

S. Benson

S. Beranek

A. Berezhnoy

R. Bernet

D. Berninghoff

Measurement of 
					 production in pp collisions at 
					 TeV Supported by CERN and national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MSHE (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE NP and NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (USA). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, and the Thousand Talents Program (China); RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia); GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).