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Measurement of ratios of fragmentation fractions for bottom hadrons in collisions at =1.96 TeV
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CDF Collaboration
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Abstract
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| This paper describes the first measurement of b-quark fragmentation fractions into bottom hadrons in Run II of the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab. The result is based on a 360 pb-1 sample of data collected with the CDF II detector in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV. Semileptonic decays of B̅ 0, B-, and B̅ s0 mesons, as well as Λb0 baryons, are reconstructed. For an effective bottom hadron pT threshold of 7 GeV/c, the fragmentation fractions are measured to be fu/fd=1.054±0.018(stat)-0.045+0.025(sys)±0.058(B), fs/(fu+fd)=0.160±0.005(stat)-0.010+0.011(sys)-0.034+0.057(B), and fΛb/(fu+fd)=0.281±0.012(stat)-0.056+0.058(sys)-0.087+0.128(B), where the uncertainty B is due to uncertainties on measured branching ratios. The value of fs/(fu+fd) agrees within one standard deviation with previous CDF measurements and the world average of this quantity, which is dominated by LEP measurements. However, the ratio fΛb/(fu+fd) is approximately twice the value previously measured at LEP. The approximately 2σ discrepancy is examined in terms of kinematic differences between the two production environments. |
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English
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Physical review : D : particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology / American Physical Society. - Ridge, N.Y., 2004 - 2015
Physical review : D : particles and fields. - Lancaster, Pa, 1970 - 2003
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Publication
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Ridge, N.Y.
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American Physical Society
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2008
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ISSN
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1550-7998
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1550-2368
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Volume/pages
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77
:7
(2008)
, p. 072003,1-072003,31
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ISI
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000255457800006
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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