Measurement of correlated $\mu - {overline b}$ jet cross sections in $p {\bar p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.8$ TeV

TL;DR

This paper measures correlated muon and anti-b jet cross sections in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.8 TeV, comparing experimental results with next-to-leading order QCD predictions to test theoretical models.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed measurement of differential correlated muon-anti-b jet cross sections in proton-antiproton collisions at Tevatron energies.

Findings

Measured cross sections agree with NLO QCD within uncertainties

Provided differential distributions in jet transverse energy and angular separation

Enhanced understanding of heavy-flavor production mechanisms

Abstract

We report on measurements of differential $\mu - {\bar b}$ cross sections, where the muon is from a semi-leptonic $b$ decay and the ${\bar b}$ is identified using precision track reconstruction in jets. The semi-differential correlated cross sections, d$\sigma$/d$\Et^{{\bar b}}$, d$\sigma$/d$\pt^{{\bar b}}$, and d$\sigma$/d$\delta\phi(\mu - {\bar b})$ for $\pt^{\mu}>$~9 GeV/c, $|\eta^{\mu}|<$~0.6, $\Et^{{\bar b}}>$~10 GeV, $|\eta^{{\bar b}}|<$~1.5, are presented and compared to next-to-leading order QCD calculations.