Observation of Z Decays to b Quark Pairs at the Tevatron Collider

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1998-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9806022v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

12 pages, 8 .eps figures

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A search for Z boson decays to pairs of b-quark jets has been performed in the full dataset collected with the CDF detector at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. After the selection of a pure sample of bb events by means of the identification of secondary vertices from b-quark decays, we have used two kinematic variables to further discriminate the electroweak bb production from QCD processes, and sought evidence for the Z decay in the dijet invariant mass distribution. An absolute background prediction allows the extraction of an excess of events inconsistent with the background predictions by 3.23 sigma but in good agreement with the amount and characteristics of the expected signal. We then fit the mass distribution with an unbinned likelihood technique, and obtain a Z -> bb signal amounting to 91+-30+-19 events.

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