Measurement of the bottom quark production cross section in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy 630 GeV using muons with associated jets
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We have measured the b-quark production cross section fory
< 1 using a sample of muons with associated jets collected with the D⊘ detector in pp̄ collisions at √s = 630 GeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. The measured b-quark cross section is consistent in shape with O(α³s) QCD predictions, but exceeds them in normalization by roughly a factor of 2.5.
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Ph.D.Degree Level
doctoralDegree Program
Graduate CollegePhysics