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Small-Angle Muon and Bottom-Quark Production inpp¯Collisions at√s=1.8TeV
- Source :
- Physical Review Letters. 84:5478-5483
- Publication Year :
- 2000
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2000.
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Abstract
- 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 pbarp collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV. The data used in this analysis were collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. We find that NLO QCD calculations underestimate b quark production by a factor of four in the forward rapidity region. A cross section measurement using muon+jet data has been included in this version of the paper.
Details
- ISSN :
- 10797114 and 00319007
- Volume :
- 84
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........3a05a6fd757133613d7c43d8cb0efea4