Search for Anomalous Heavy-Flavor Quark Production in Association with W Bosons

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proton-proton inclusive interactions, high-energy elementary particle interactions, W bosons, elementary particle jets, flavour model, standard model, quark production

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Search for Anomalous Heavy-Flavor Quark Production in Association with W Bosons. / DO Collaboration, The; Bertram, Iain A.; Borissov, Guennadi V. et al.
In: Physical review letters, Vol. 94, No. 15, 22.04.2005, p. 152002.

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title = "Search for Anomalous Heavy-Flavor Quark Production in Association with W Bosons",

abstract = "We search for anomalous production of heavy-flavor quark jets in association with W bosons at the Fermilab Tevatron p Collider in final states in which the heavy-flavor quark content is enhanced by requiring at least one tagged jet in an event. Jets are tagged using one algorithm based on semileptonic decays of b/c hadrons, and another on their lifetimes. We compare e+jets (164 pb-1) and µ+jets (145 pb-1) channels collected with the D0 detector at =1.96 TeV to expectations from the standard model and set upper limits on anomalous production of such events.",

keywords = "proton-proton inclusive interactions, high-energy elementary particle interactions, W bosons, elementary particle jets, flavour model, standard model, quark production",

author = "{DO Collaboration}, The and Bertram, {Iain A.} and Borissov, {Guennadi V.} and Ratoff, {Peter N.} and Andre Sopczak",

note = "Author list is partial - see original article for full author list.",

year = "2005",

month = apr,

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language = "English",

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