Improved determination of the sample composition of dimuon events produced in p[overline p] collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV
Author(s)
CDF Collaboration; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Makhoul, Khaldoun
DownloadAaltonen2011_Article_ImprovedDeterminationOfTheSamp.pdf (727.7Kb)
PUBLISHER_CC
Publisher with Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution
Terms of use
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
We use a new method to estimate with 5% accuracy the contribution of pion and kaon in-flight-decays to the dimuon data set acquired with the CDF detector. Based on this improved estimate, we show that the total number and the properties of the collected dimuon events are not yet accounted for by ordinary sources of dimuons which also include the contributions, as measured in the data, of heavy flavor, Υ[hooked], and Drell-Yan production in addition to muons mimicked by hadronic punchthrough. The number of unaccounted events corresponds to (12.8±3.2)% of the bb̄ production. We find that (23±6)% of the unaccounted events contain additional muon candidates. For comparison, this fraction is (6.9±0.4)% for events due to bb̄ production.
Date issued
2011-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Publisher
Springer Nature
Citation
Aaltonen, T. et al. “Improved determination of the sample composition of dimuon events produced in p[overline p] collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV.” The European Physical Journal C 71, 8 (August 2011) © 2011 The Author(s)
Version: Final published version
ISSN
1434-6044
1434-6052