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Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons in pp¯ collisions at s√=1.96  TeV

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Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons in pp¯ collisions at s√=1.96  TeV. / D0 Collaboration.
In: Physical review letters, Vol. 114, No. 5, 051803, 04.02.2015.

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D0 Collaboration. Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons in pp¯ collisions at s√=1.96  TeV. Physical review letters. 2015 Feb 4;114(5):051803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.051803

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title = "Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons in pp¯ collisions at s√=1.96  TeV",
abstract = "We present a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons, AFB(B±), using B±→J/ψK± decays in 10.4  fb−1 of pp¯ collisions at s√=1.96  TeV collected by the D0 experiment during Run II of the Tevatron collider. A nonzero asymmetry would indicate a preference for a particular flavor, i.e., b quark or b¯ antiquark, to be produced in the direction of the proton beam. We extract AFB(B±) from a maximum likelihood fit to the difference between the numbers of forward- and backward-produced B± mesons. We measure an asymmetry consistent with zero: AFB(B±)=[−0.24±0.41  (stat)±0.19  (syst)]%.",
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T1 - Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons in pp¯ collisions at s√=1.96  TeV

AU - Bertram, Iain

AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Williams, Mark

AU - Ratoff, Peter

AU - Ross, Anthony

AU - D0 Collaboration

N1 - 8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett © 2015 American Physical Society

PY - 2015/2/4

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N2 - We present a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons, AFB(B±), using B±→J/ψK± decays in 10.4  fb−1 of pp¯ collisions at s√=1.96  TeV collected by the D0 experiment during Run II of the Tevatron collider. A nonzero asymmetry would indicate a preference for a particular flavor, i.e., b quark or b¯ antiquark, to be produced in the direction of the proton beam. We extract AFB(B±) from a maximum likelihood fit to the difference between the numbers of forward- and backward-produced B± mesons. We measure an asymmetry consistent with zero: AFB(B±)=[−0.24±0.41  (stat)±0.19  (syst)]%.

AB - We present a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons, AFB(B±), using B±→J/ψK± decays in 10.4  fb−1 of pp¯ collisions at s√=1.96  TeV collected by the D0 experiment during Run II of the Tevatron collider. A nonzero asymmetry would indicate a preference for a particular flavor, i.e., b quark or b¯ antiquark, to be produced in the direction of the proton beam. We extract AFB(B±) from a maximum likelihood fit to the difference between the numbers of forward- and backward-produced B± mesons. We measure an asymmetry consistent with zero: AFB(B±)=[−0.24±0.41  (stat)±0.19  (syst)]%.

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DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.051803

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