Observation of diffractive b-quark production at the Fermilab, Tevatron

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作者
Affolder, T [1 ]
Akimoto, H
Akopian, A
Albrow, MG
Amaral, P
Amendolia, SR
Amidei, D
Antos, J
Apollinari, G
Arisawa, T
Asakawa, T
Ashmanskas, W
Atac, M
Azzi-Bacchetta, P
Bacchetta, N
Bailey, MW
Bailey, S
de Barbaro, P
Barbaro-Galtieri, A
Barnes, VE
Barnett, BA
Barone, M
Bauer, G
Bedeschi, F
Belforte, S
Bellettini, G
Bellinger, J
Benjamin, D
Bensinger, J
Beretvas, A
Berge, JP
Berryhill, J
Bertolucci, S
Bevensee, B
Bhatti, A
Bigongiari, C
Binkley, M
Bisello, D
Blair, RE
Blocker, C
Bloom, K
Blumenfeld, B
Blusk, BS
Bocci, A
Bodek, A
Bokhari, W
Bolla, G
Bonushkin, Y
Borras, K
Bortoletto, D
机构
[1] Ernest Orlando Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
[3] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[4] Univ Bologna, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[5] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[6] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[7] Univ Cantabria, Inst Fis Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain
[8] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[9] Joint Inst Nucl Res, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia
[10] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[11] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[12] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[14] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[15] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[16] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 724, Japan
[17] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[18] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[19] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[20] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Korean Hadron Collider Lab, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[21] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[22] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[23] High Energy Accelerator Res Org KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[24] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[25] McGill Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[26] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[27] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[28] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[29] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[30] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[31] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 588, Japan
[32] Univ Padua, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[33] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[34] Univ Pisa, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[35] Scuola Normale Super Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[36] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[37] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[38] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[39] Rockefeller Univ, New York, NY 10021 USA
[40] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
[41] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[42] Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA
[43] Univ Trieste, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Udine, Italy
[44] Univ Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[45] Tufts Univ, Medford, MA 02155 USA
[46] Waseda Univ, Tokyo 169, Japan
[47] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[48] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.232
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We report a measurement of the fraction of b quarks produced diffractively in (p) over bar p collisions at root s = 1.8 TeV. Diffraction is identified by the absence of particles in a forward pseudorapidity region. From events with an electron of transverse momentum 9.5 < p(T)(e) < 20 GeV/c within the pseudorapidity region \eta\ < 1.1, the ratio of diffractive to total b-quark production rates is found to be R-(b) over bar b = [0.62 +/- 0.19(stat) +/- 0.16(syst)]%. This result is comparable in magnitude to corresponding ratios for W and dijet production but significantly lower than expectations based on factorization.
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页数:6
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