Search for anomalous semileptonic decay of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson at CDF II
- University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (United States)
- University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (United States)
We present a search for anomalous semileptonic decays of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson in proton-antiproton collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV. We use 162 pb{sup -1} of data collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We select events with one W boson and at least one jet with an identified secondary vertex. In the jets with a secondary vertex we look for a semileptonic decay to a muon. We compare the number of jets with both a secondary vertex and a semileptonic decay and the kinematic properties of these jets, with the standard model expectation of W plus heavy flavor production and decay. No discrepancy is seen between the observation and the expectation, and we set limits on the production cross section of a B-like hadron with an anomalously high semileptonic branching ratio.
- OSTI ID:
- 20776817
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 73, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.051101; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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BRANCHING RATIO
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
FERMILAB COLLIDER DETECTOR
FERMILAB TEVATRON
FLAVOR MODEL
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JET MODEL
MUONS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PROTON-ANTIPROTON INTERACTIONS
PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
SEMILEPTONIC DECAY
STANDARD MODEL
TEV RANGE
W MINUS BOSONS
W PLUS BOSONS