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Cross-section and heavy quark composition of gamma + muon events produced in p anti-p collisions

The CDF collaboration Affolder, T. ; Akimoto, H. ; Akopian, A. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 65 (2002) 012003, 2002.
Inspire Record 557647 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.42881

We present a measurement of the cross section and the first measurement of the heavy flavor content of associated direct photon + muon events produced in hadronic collisions. These measurements come from a sample of 1.8 TeV ppbar collisions recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts that these events are primarily due to Compton scattering process charm+gluon -> charm+photon, with the final state charm quark producing a muon. The cross section for events with a photon transverse momentum between 12 and 40 GeV/c is measured to be 46.8+-6.3+-7.5 pb, which is two standard deviations below the most recent theoretical prediction. A significant fraction of the events in the sample contain a final-state bottom quark. The ratio of charm to bottom production is measured to be 2.4+-1.2, in good agreement with QCD models.

2 data tables

The measured photon-muon cross section.

Measured cross section in the PT interval 12-40 GeV.


The Transverse momentum and total cross-section of e+ e- pairs in the Z-boson region from p anti-p collisions at S**(1/2) = 1.8-TeV

The CDF collaboration Affolder, T. ; Akimoto, H ; Akopian, A. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 84 (2000) 845-850, 2000.
Inspire Record 505738 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.42070

The transverse momentum and total cross section of e^+e^- pairs in the Z-boson region of 66<M_{ee}<116 GeV$/c^2$ from $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.8$ TeV are measured using 110 pb^{-1} of collisions taken by the Collider Detector at Fermilab during 1992-1995. The total cross section is measured to be $248 \pm 11$ pb. The differential transverse momentum cross section is compared with calculations that match quantum chromodynamics perturbation theory at high transverse momentum with the gluon resummation formalism at low transverse momentum.

2 data tables

The measured transverse momentum distribution of e+e- pairs in the Z0 bosonregion. PT is the centre of the bins.

The total cross section for e+e- pair production in the Z0 region. The mainerror is the statistical and efficiency error, the first DSYS error is the syst ematic error from the background subtractions and the second DSYS error is from the collision luminosity.