Small-angle muon and bottom-quark production in p&pmacr; collisions at radicals = 1.8 TeV. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This Letter describes a measurement of the muon cross section originating from b-quark decay in the forward rapidity range 2.4<| y(&mgr;)|<3.2 in p&pmacr; 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.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Smith, R. P., Snihur, R., Snow, G. R., Snow, J., Snyder, S., Solomon, J., ... Thomas, T. L.

citation count

  • 36

complete list of 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||Stoyanova, DA||Strauss, M||Streets, K||Strovink, M||Sznajder, A||Tamburello, P||Tarazi, J||Tartaglia, M||Thomas, TL

publication date

  • June 2000