PRODUCTION OF W PLUS HEAVY-QUARK PAIRS IN HADRONIC COLLISIONS

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MANGANO, ML [1 ]
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[1] DIPARTIMENTO FIS,PISA,ITALY
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10.1016/0550-3213(93)90558-7
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We study the associated production of W mesons and heavy-quark pairs in hadronic collisions, using calculations performed with partonic level matrix elements and with shower Monte Carlo programs. We discuss the reliability of the predictions and evaluate the effect of these processes on the detection of top quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, concluding that relatively simple cuts will allow the selection of high-purity samples of top events with tagged b's. We also present estimates for the associated production of W with bottom and top quark pairs at super-collider energies.
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