Phys. Rev. Lett.
82,
41–44
(1999)
Measurement of the bb̅ Cross Section in 800GeV/c Proton-Silicon Interactions
T. Alexopoulos et al.
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T. Alexopoulos18, L. Antoniazzi11, M. Arenton17, H. C. Ballagh1, H. Bingham1, A. Blankman12, M. Block10, A. Boden2, G. Bonomi11, Z. L. Cao17, T. Y. Chen9, K. Clark15, D. Cline2, S. Conetti17, M. Cooper16, G. Corti17, B. Cox17, P. Creti7, E. C. Dukes17, C. Durandet18, V. Elia7, A. R. Erwin18, L. Fortney4, V. Golovatyuk7, E. Gorini7, F. Grancagnolo7, K. Hagan-Ingram17, M. Haire13, P. Hanlet17, M. He14, G. Introzzi11, M. Jenkins15, D. Judd13, W. Kononenko12, W. Kowald4, K. Lau6, A. Ledovskoy17, G. Liguori11, J. Lys1, P. O. Mazur5, A. P. McManus17, S. Misawa1, G. H. Mo6, C. T. Murphy5, K. Nelson17, M. Panareo7, V. Pogosyan17, S. Ramachandran2, J. Rhoades2, W. Selove12, R. P. Smith5, L. Spiegel5, J. G. Sun17, S. Tokar3, P. Torre11, J. Trischuk8, L. Turnbull13, D. E. Wagoner13, C. R. Wang14, C. Wei14, W. Yang5, N. Yao9, N. J. Zhang14, and B. T. Zou4
1University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 2University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024 3Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia 4Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706 5Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 6University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 7University and INFN of Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy 8McGill University, Montreal, Canada PQ H3A 2T8 9Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China 10Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 11University and INFN of Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy 12University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 13Prairie View A&M, Prairie View, Texas 77446 14Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China 15University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688 16Vanier College, St. Laurent, Canada PQ H4L 3X9 17University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 18University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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/ψ→μ+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
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