First measurement of the b-Jet cross section in events with a W boson in pp[over-bar] collisions at [sqrt]s=1.96TeV
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Paus, Christoph M. E.; Choudalakis, Georgios; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Henderson, C.; Knuteson, Bruce O.; Xie, Si; Bauer, Gerry P; Makhoul, Khaldoun; ... Show more Show less
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First measurement of the b-Jet cross section in events with a W boson in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV
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The cross section for jets from b quarks produced with a W boson has been measured in pp[over-bar] collision data from 1.9 fb[superscript -1] of integrated luminosity recorded by the CDF II detector at the Tevatron. The W+b-jets process poses a significant background in measurements of top quark production and prominent searches for the Higgs boson. We measure a b-jet cross section of 2.74±0.27(stat)±0.42(syst) pb in association with a single flavor of leptonic W boson decay over a limited kinematic phase space. This measured result cannot be accommodated in several available theoretical predictions.
Date issued
2010-04Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
CDF Collaboration et al. “First Measurement of the b-Jet Cross Section in Events with a W Boson in pp-bar Collisions at [sqrt]s=1.96 TeV.” Physical Review Letters 104.13 (2010): 131801.
© 2010 The American Physical Society.
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0031-9007