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Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 41–44 (1999)

Measurement of the bb̅ Cross Section in 800GeV/c Proton-Silicon Interactions

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T. Alexopoulos et al.
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Received 7 July 1997; revised 1 September 1998; published in the issue dated 4 January 1999

The cross section for bb̅ production in 800GeV/c pN interactions has been measured in Fermilab experiment E771 to be 43-17+27(stat)-7+7(syst)nb per nucleon from the observation of events in which both the b and the b̅ decay semimuonically or a B decays into a J/ψ followed by J/ψμ+μ-.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.41
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.41
PACS:
13.85.Ni, 13.85.Qk, 13.20.He, 25.40.Ve