Cross Section for b-Jet Production in p̅p Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Authors

B. Abbott, New York University, New York, New York 10003
Gregory R. Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
D0 Collaboration

Date of this Version

12-11-2000

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. VOLUME 85, NUMBER 24 (2000). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2000 American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

Bottom-quark production in p̅p collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV is studied with 5 pb^-1 of data collected in 1995 by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The differential production cross section for b jets in the central rapidity region (∣y_b∣< 1) as a function of jet transverse energy is extracted from a muon-tagged jet sample. Within experimental and theoretical uncertainties, D0 results are found to be higher than, but compatible with, next-to-leading-order QCD predictions.