Small-angle muon and bottom-quark production in p(p)over-bar collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

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作者
Abbott, B
Abolins, M
Abramov, V
Acharya, BS
Adam, I
Adams, DL
Adams, M
Ahn, S
Akimov, V
Alves, GA
Amos, N
Anderson, EW
Baarmand, MM
Babintsev, VV
Babukhadia, L
Baden, A
Baldin, B
Banerjee, S
Bantly, J
Barberis, E
Baringer, P
Bartlett, JF
Belyaev, A
Beri, SB
Bertram, I
Bezzubov, VA
Bhat, PC
Bhatnagar, V
Bhattacharjee, M
Blazey, G
Blessing, S
Bloom, P
Boehnlein, A
Bojko, NI
Borcherding, F
Boswell, C
Brandt, A
Breedon, R
Briskin, G
Brock, R
Bross, A
Buchholz, D
Burtovoi, VS
Butler, JM
Carvalho, W
Casey, D
Casilum, Z
Castilla-Valdez, H
Chakraborty, D
Chan, KM
机构
[1] NYU, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[3] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[4] Univ Estado Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[5] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[6] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[7] Univ San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador
[8] Univ Grenoble 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Nucl Sci, Grenoble, France
[9] CEA, Serv Phys Particules, DAPNIA, Saclay, France
[10] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[11] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[12] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[13] Kyungsung Univ, Pusan 608736, South Korea
[14] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[15] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[16] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[17] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[18] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[19] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[20] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster, England
[21] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[22] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[23] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[24] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[25] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[26] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[27] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[28] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[29] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[30] Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[31] No Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[32] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[33] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[34] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[35] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[36] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[37] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[38] Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
[39] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[40] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[41] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[42] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[43] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[44] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[45] Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[46] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[47] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[48] SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[49] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[50] Langston Univ, Langston, OK 73050 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5478
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O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
This Letter describes a measurement of the muon cross section originating from b-quark decay in the forward rapidity range 2.4 < \y(mu)\ < 3.2 in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.8 TeV. The data used in this analysis were collected by the DO experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. We find that next-to-leading-order QCD calculations underestimate b-quark production by a factor of 4 in the forward rapidity region.
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页码:5478 / 5483
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