Measurement of the Bottom-Quark Production Cross Section in 800 GeV/cProton-Gold Collisions

Autor:	C. N. Brown, R. Childers, T. A. Carey, L. D. Isenhower, R. S. Preston, Kam Biu Luk, D. W. Lane, M. H. Schub, Pei-Ming Ho, J. Sa, D. M. Jansen, M. E. Sadler, Josh Moss, P. K. Teng, R. Schnathorst, J. S. Kapustinsky, V. Tanikella, Yi-Chun Chen, W. E. Cooper, D. Pripstein, Leon M. Lederman, P. L. McGaughey, J. W. Lillberg, C. S. Mishra, Jen-Chieh Peng, R. G. Jeppesen, G. C. Kiang, M. S. Kowitt, G. Gidal, K. Gounder, W. Luebke, Daniel M. Kaplan, C. W. Darden, James R. Wilson, M. J. Leitch
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Quantum chromodynamics Mass number Physics Particle decay Particle physics Meson Proton General Physics and Astronomy Production (computer science) Nucleon Bottom quark
Zdroj:	Physical Review Letters. 74:3118-3121
ISSN:	1079-7114 0031-9007
Popis:	Using a silicon-microstrip detector array to identify secondary vertices, we have observed {ital b}{r_arrow}{ital J}/{psi}{r_arrow}{mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup {minus}} decays in 800 GeV/{ital c} proton-gold interactions. The doubly differential cross section for {ital J}/{psi} mesons originating from {ital b}-quark decays, assuming linear dependence on nucleon number, is {ital d}{sup 2}{sigma}/{ital dx}{sub {ital Fdp}}{sup 2}{sub {ital T}}=107{plus_minus}28{plus_minus}19/nucleon at {ital x}{sub {ital F}}=0.05 and {ital p}{sub {ital T}}=1GeV/{ital c}. This measurement is compared to next-to-leading-order QCD predictions. The integrated {ital b}-quark production cross section, obtained by extrapolation over all {ital x}{sub {ital F}} and {ital p}{sub {ital T}}, is {sigma}({ital pN}{r_arrow}{ital bb}{ovr bar}+{ital X})=5.7{plus_minus}1.5{plus_minus}1.3 nb/nucleon.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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