Measurement of bb rapidity correlations in pp collisions at s=1.8 TeV Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report the first direct measurement of bb rapidity correlations in pp collisions at =1.8 TeV. We select events with a high transverse momentum muon accompanied by a jet, and a second jet associated with a decay vertex displaced from the pp interaction vertex. Two independent samples are obtained corresponding to events with a forward (2.0<||<2.6) or central (||<0.6) muon. We measure the ratio of forward to central bb production to be 0.3610.033(stat)-0.031+0.015(syst), in good agreement with the next-to-leading order QCD prediction 0.338-0.097+0.014. 2000 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

author list (cited authors)

  • Abe, F., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M. G., Amadon, A., Amendolia, S. R., ... Dell'Orso, M.

complete list of authors

  • Abe, F||Akimoto, H||Akopian, A||Albrow, MG||Amadon, A||Amendolia, SR||Amidei, D||Antos, J||Aota, S||Apollinari, G||Arisawa, T||Asakawa, T||Ashmanskas, W||Atac, M||Azzi-Bacchetta, P||Bacchetta, N||Bagdasarov, S||Bailey, MW||De Barbaro, P||Barbaro-Galtieri, A||Barnes, VE||Barnett, BA||Barone, M||Bauer, G||Baumann, T||Bedeschi, F||Behrends, S||Belforte, S||Bellettini, G||Bellinger, J||Benjamin, D||Bensinger, J||Beretvas, A||Berge, JP||Berryhill, J||Bertolucci, S||Bettelli, S||Bevensee, B||Bhatti, A||Biery, K||Bigongiari, C||Binkley, M||Bisello, D||Blair, RE||Blocker, C||Bloom, K||Blusk, S||Bodek, A||Bokhari, W||Bolla, G||Bonushkin, Y||Bortoletto, D||Boudreau, J||Breccia, L||Bromberg, C||Bruner, N||Brunetti, R||Buckley-Geer, E||Budd, HS||Burkett, K||Busetto, G||Byon-Wagner, A||Byrum, KL||Campbell, M||Caner, A||Carithers, W||Carlsmith, D||Cassada, J||Castro, A||Cauz, D||Cerri, A||Chang, PS||Chang, PT||Chao, HY||Chapman, J||Cheng, MT||Chertok, M||Chiarelli, G||Chiou, CN||Chlebana, F||Christofek, L||Cropp, R||Chu, ML||Cihangir, S||Clark, AG||Cobal, M||Cocca, E||Contreras, M||Conway, J||Cooper, J||Cordelli, M||Costanzo, D||Couyoumtzelis, C||Cronin-Hennessy, D||Culbertson, R||Dagenhart, D||Daniels, T||DeJongh, F||Dell'Agnello, S||Dell'Orso, M

publication date

  • February 2000