Search for Anomalous Heavy-Flavor Quark Production in Association with W Bosons

Authors

V. M. Abazov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Gregory R. Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
D0 Collaboration

Date of this Version

4-22-2005

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 152002 (2005). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2005 American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We search for anomalous production of heavy-flavor quark jets in association with W bosons at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̅ Collider in final states in which the heavy-flavor quark content is enhanced by requiring at least one tagged jet in an event. Jets are tagged using one algorithm based on semileptonic decays of b/c hadrons, and another on their lifetimes. We compare ℯ⁺ jets (164 pb^-1) and μ⁺ jets (145 pb^-1) channels collected with the D0 detector at √s = 1.96 TeV to expectations from the standard model and set upper limits on anomalous production of such events.