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Title
Search for anomalous semileptonic decay of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a **W** boson at CDF II
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Institution/Organisation
CDF Collaboration
Abstract
We present a search for anomalous semileptonic decays of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson in proton-antiproton collisions at √s=1.96  TeV. We use 162  pb-1 of data collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We select events with one W boson and at least one jet with an identified secondary vertex. In the jets with a secondary vertex we look for a semileptonic decay to a muon. We compare the number of jets with both a secondary vertex and a semileptonic decay and the kinematic properties of these jets, with the standard model expectation of W plus heavy flavor production and decay. No discrepancy is seen between the observation and the expectation, and we set limits on the production cross section of a B-like hadron with an anomalously high semileptonic branching ratio.
Language
English
Source (journal)
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
Publication
Ridge, N.Y. : American Physical Society , 2006
ISSN
1550-7998 [print]
1550-2368 [online]
DOI
10.1103/PHYSREVD.73.051101
Volume/pages
73 :5 (2006) , p. 051101,1-051101,8
ISI
000236465800001
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