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Phys. Rev. D 61, 032001 (1999) [18 pages]

Measurement of bb̅ rapidity correlations in pp̅ collisions at s=1.8TeV

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F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
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Received 7 December 1998; published 30 December 1999

We report the first direct measurement of bb̅ rapidity correlations in pp̅ collisions at s=1.8TeV. We select events with a high transverse momentum muon accompanied by a jet, and a second jet associated with a decay vertex displaced from the pp̅ interaction vertex. Two independent samples are obtained corresponding to events with a forward (2.0<|η|<2.6) or central (|η|<0.6) muon. We measure the ratio of forward to central bb̅ production to be 0.361±0.033(stat)-0.031+0.015(syst), in good agreement with the next-to-leading order QCD prediction 0.338-0.097+0.014.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.61.032001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.032001
PACS:
13.87.Ce, 13.85.Qk