Improved Measurement of the Probability for Gluon Splitting into b bbar in Z0 Decays

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2001-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0102002v1

Phys.Lett.B507:61-69,2001

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

21 pages, 11 figures; submitted to Physics Letters B

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00367-7

We have measured gluon splitting into bottom quarks, g -> b bbar, in hadronic Z0 decays collected by SLD between 1996 and 1998. The analysis was performed by looking for secondary bottom production in 4-jet events of any primary flavor. 4-jet events were identified, and in each event a topological vertex-mass technique was applied to the two jets closest in angle in order to identify them as b or bbar jets. The upgraded CCD vertex detector gives very high B-tagging efficiency, especially for B hadrons with the low energies typical of this process. We measured the rate of g -> b bbar production per hadronic event, g_bb, to be (2.44+-0.59 (stat) +-0.34 (syst)) X10**-3.

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