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Title: Photo- and hadro-production of charm and beauty at Fermilab

Abstract

This report concentrates on results from three Fermilab experiments: the photoproduction of charm in the fixed target mode from experiment E687, and the collider hadroproduction of b-quarks and B-mesons as measured respectively by the D0 and CDF detectors. Only the production of open flavors is considered. For heavy quarkonia results see the contribution from B. Naroska to these proceedings.

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  1. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)|[Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (United States)
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Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
119983
Report Number(s):
FNAL/C-95/313-E; CONF-950705-24
ON: DE96001747; TRN: 95:024486
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH03000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Conference: HEP 95: international Europhysics conference on high-energy physics, Brussels (Belgium), 27 Jul - 2 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
66 PHYSICS; CHARMED MESONS; PHOTOPRODUCTION; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY; B QUARKS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; B MESONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; FERMILAB COLLIDER DETECTOR; DISTRIBUTION; INCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS; PROTON-ANTIPROTON INTERACTIONS; PHOTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS

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Maciel, A.K.A. Photo- and hadro-production of charm and beauty at Fermilab. United States: N. p., 1995. Web. doi:10.2172/119983.
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title = {Photo- and hadro-production of charm and beauty at Fermilab},
author = {Maciel, A.K.A.},
abstractNote = {This report concentrates on results from three Fermilab experiments: the photoproduction of charm in the fixed target mode from experiment E687, and the collider hadroproduction of b-quarks and B-mesons as measured respectively by the D0 and CDF detectors. Only the production of open flavors is considered. For heavy quarkonia results see the contribution from B. Naroska to these proceedings.},
doi = {10.2172/119983},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995},
month = {Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995}
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