Small-angle muon and bottom-quark production in p collisions at radicals = 1.8 TeV

This Letter describes a measurement of the muon cross section originating from b-quark decay in the forward rapidity range 2.4<| y( )|<3.2 in p 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 next-to-lea...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 84; no. 24; p. 5478
Main Authors Smith, RP, Snihur, R, Snow, GR, Snow, J, Snyder, S, Solomon, J, Song, XF, Sosebee, M, Sotnikova, N, Souza, M, Stanton, NR, Steinbruck, G, Stephens, RW, Stevenson, ML, Stichelbaut, F, Stoker, D, Stolin, V, V, Stoyanova, DA, Strauss, M, Streets, K, Strovink, M, Sznajder, A, Tamburello, P, Tarazi, J, Tartaglia, M, Thomas, TL
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 12.06.2000
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Summary:This Letter describes a measurement of the muon cross section originating from b-quark decay in the forward rapidity range 2.4<| y( )|<3.2 in p 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 next-to-leading-order QCD calculations underestimate b-quark production by a factor of 4 in the forward rapidity region.
ISSN:1079-7114