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Bottom production cross section from double muonic decays of b-hadrons in 920 GeV proton-nucleus collision

The HERA-B collaboration Abt, I. ; Adams, M. ; Agari, M. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 650 (2007) 103-110, 2007.
Inspire Record 734145 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.57461

The b-bbar production cross section in 920 GeV proton-nucleus fixed target collisions is measured by observing double muonic decays of b-flavored hadrons in the kinematic region $-0.3<\xF(\mu)<0.15$. A total number of $76\pm12$ b-bbar events is obtained with a likelihood fit of the signal and background simulated events to the data. The resulting cross section is $\sigbb = 16.2 \pm 2.5_{stat} \pm 2.8_{sys} \nbpn$, or, when combined with a previous Hera-B measurement of similar precision, $\sigbb = 15.4 \pm 1.7_{stat} \pm 1.2_{sys}^{uncorr.} \pm 1.9_{sys}^{corr.} \nbpn$, which is consistent with recent NLO calculations.

2 data tables
Table 1

BOTTOM BOTTOMBAR production cross section.

Table 2

BOTTOM BOTTOMBAR production cross section combined with previous HERA-B measurement.


Improved measurement of the b anti-b production cross section in 920-GeV fixed-target proton nucleus collisions.

The HERA-B collaboration Abt, I. ; Adams, M. ; Agari, M. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 73 (2006) 052005, 2006.
Inspire Record 700310 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.57501

A new measurement of the b-bbar production cross section in 920 GeV proton-nucleus collisions is presented by the HERA-B collaboration. The b-bbar production is tagged via inclusive bottom quark decays into J/psi mesons, by exploiting the longitudinal separation of J/psi->ll decay vertices from the primary proton-nucleus interaction point. Both e+e- and mu+mu- channels are reconstructed, for a total of 83 +- 12 inclusive b->J/psi X events found. The combined analysis yields a b-bbar to prompt J/psi cross section ratio of ${\frac{{\Delta\sigma(bbbar)}}{{\Delta\sigma_{\jpsi}}}} = 0.032\pm 0.005 \stat \pm 0.004 \sys$ measured in the x_f acceptance (-0.35 <x_f <0.15), extrapolated to $\sigma(bbbar) = 14.9 \pm 2.2 \stat \pm 2.4 \sys $ nb/nucleon in the total phase space.

7 data tables
Table 1

Ratio of prompt J/PSI to B-BBAR production cross section in P C interactions in the Feynmann X range -0.35 to 0.15 for the E+ E- and MU+ MU- channels separately and combined.

Table 2

Ratio of prompt J/PSI to B-BBAR production cross section in P TI interactions in the Feynmann X range -0.35 to 0.15 for the E+ E- and MU+ MU- channels separately and combined.

Table 3

Ratio of prompt J/PSI to B-BBAR production cross section in P WT interactions in the Feynmann X range -0.35 to 0.15 for the E+ E- and MU+ MU- channels separately and combined.

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