Bottom production in pi- - Be collisions at 515-GeV/c

The E672/E706 collaboration Jesik, R. ; Abramov, V. ; Antipov, Yu. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 74 (1995) 495-498, 1995.
Inspire Record 374151 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.42447

We report on a sample of Jψ mesons coming from secondary vertices, a characteristic of heavyquark decay, detected in the Fermilab Meson West spectrometer. Based on eight signal events in which a Jψ emerges from a secondary vertex occurring in an air-gap region, we obtain an inclusive bb¯ cross section of 75 ± 31 ± 26 nb/nucleon. This result is compared to recent QCD predictions. We have also observed several events in the exclusive decay modes B±→Jψ+K± and B0→Jψ+K0* in which the B mass is fully reconstructed.

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The cross section is multiplied on Br(J/PSI --> MU+ MU-).

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