Measurement of the ratio of inclusive cross sections sigma(pp --> Z + b jet)/sigma(pp --> Z + jet) at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV

V M Abazov; B Abbott; M Abolins; B S Acharya; M Adams; T Adams; M Agelou; J-L Agram; S H Ahn; M Ahsan; G D Alexeev; G Alkhazov; A Alton; G Alverson; G A Alves; M Anastasoaie; S Anderson; B Andrieu; Y Arnoud; A Askew; B Asman; O Atramentov; C Autermann; C Avila; F Badaud; A Baden; B Baldin; P W Balm; S Banerjee; E Barberis; P Bargassa; P Baringer; C Barnes; J Barreto; J F Bartlett; U Bassler; D Bauer; A Bean; S Beauceron; M Begel; A Bellavance; S B Beri; G Bernardi; R Bernhard; I Bertram; M Besançon; R Beuselinck; V A Bezzubov; P C Bhat; V Bhatnagar; M Binder; K M Black; I Blackler; G Blazey; F Blekman; S Blessing; D Bloch; U Blumenschein; A Boehnlein; O Boeriu; T A Bolton; F Borcherding; G Borissov; K Bos; T Bose; A Brandt; R Brock; G Brooijmans; A Bross; N J Buchanan; D Buchholz; M Buehler; V Buescher; S Burdin; T H Burnett; E Busato; J M Butler; J Bystricky; W Carvalho; B C K Casey; N M Cason; H Castilla-Valdez; S Chakrabarti; D Chakraborty; K M Chan; A Chandra; D Chapin; F Charles; E Cheu; L Chevalier; D K Cho; S Choi; T Christiansen; L Christofek; D Claes; B Clément; C Clément; Y Coadou; M Cooke; W E Cooper; D Coppage; M Corcoran; J Coss; A Cothenet; M-C Cousinou; S Crépé-Renaudin; M Cristetiu; M A C Cummings; D Cutts; H da Motta; B Davies; G Davies; G A Davis; K De; P de Jong; S J de Jong; E De la Cruz-Burelo; C De Oliveira Martins; S Dean; F Déliot; P A Delsart; M Demarteau; R Demina; P Demine; D Denisov; S P Denisov; S Desai; H T Diehl; M Diesburg; M Doidge; H Dong; S Doulas; L Duflot; S R Dugad; A Duperrin; J Dyer; A Dyshkant; M Eads; D Edmunds; T Edwards; J Ellison; J Elmsheuser; J T Eltzroth; V D Elvira; S Eno; P Ermolov; O V Eroshin; J Estrada; D Evans; H Evans; A Evdokimov; V N Evdokimov; J Fast; S N Fatakia; L Feligioni; T Ferbel; F Fiedler; F Filthaut; W Fisher; H E Fisk; M Fortner; H Fox; W Freeman; S Fu; S Fuess; T Gadfort; C F Galea; E Gallas; E Galyaev; C Garcia; A Garcia-Bellido; J Gardner; V Gavrilov; P Gay; D Gelé; R Gelhaus; K Genser; C E Gerber; Y Gershtein; G Ginther; T Golling; B Gómez; K Gounder; A Goussiou; P D Grannis; S Greder; H Greenlee; Z D Greenwood; E M Gregores; Ph Gris; J-F Grivaz; L Groer; S Grünendahl; M W Grünewald; S N Gurzhiev; G Gutierrez; P Gutierrez; A Haas; N J Hadley; S Hagopian; I Hall; R E Hall; C Han; L Han; K Hanagaki; K Harder; R Harrington; J M Hauptman; R Hauser; J Hays; T Hebbeker; D Hedin; J M Heinmiller; A P Heinson; U Heintz; C Hensel; G Hesketh; M D Hildreth; R Hirosky; J D Hobbs; B Hoeneisen; M Hohlfeld; S J Hong; R Hooper; P Houben; Y Hu; J Huang; I Iashvili; R Illingworth; A S Ito; S Jabeen; M Jaffré; S Jain; V Jain; K Jakobs; A Jenkins; R Jesik; K Johns; M Johnson; A Jonckheere; P Jonsson; H Jöstlein; A Juste; M M Kado; D Käfer; W Kahl; S Kahn; E Kajfasz; A M Kalinin; J Kalk; D Karmanov; J Kasper; D Kau; R Kehoe; S Kermiche; S Kesisoglou; A Khanov; A Kharchilava; Y M Kharzheev; K H Kim; B Klima; M Klute; J M Kohli; M Kopal; V M Korablev; J Kotcher; B Kothari; A Koubarovsky; A V Kozelov; J Kozminski; S Krzywdzinski; S Kuleshov; Y Kulik; S Kunori; A Kupco; T Kurca; S Lager; N Lahrichi; G Landsberg; J Lazoflores; A-C Le Bihan; P Lebrun; S W Lee; W M Lee; A Leflat; F Lehner; C Leonidopoulos; P Lewis; J Li; Q Z Li; J G R Lima; D Lincoln; S L Linn; J Linnemann; V V Lipaev; R Lipton; L Lobo; A Lobodenko; M Lokajicek; A Lounis; H J Lubatti; L Lueking; M Lynker; A L Lyon; A K A Maciel; R J Madaras; P Mättig; A Magerkurth; A-M Magnan; N Makovec; P K Mal; S Malik; V L Malyshev; H S Mao; Y Maravin; M Martens; S E K Mattingly; A A Mayorov; R McCarthy; R McCroskey; D Meder; H L Melanson; A Melnitchouk; M Merkin; K W Merritt; A Meyer; H Miettinen; D Mihalcea; J Mitrevski; N Mokhov; J Molina; N K Mondal; H E Montgomery; R W Moore; G S Muanza; M Mulders; Y D Mutaf; E Nagy; M Narain; N A Naumann; H A Neal; J P Negret; S Nelson; P Neustroev; C Noeding; A Nomerotski; S F Novaes; T Nunnemann; E Nurse; V O'Dell; D C O'Neil; V Oguri; N Oliveira; N Oshima; G J Otero y Garzón; P Padley; N Parashar; J Park; S K Park; J Parsons; R Partridge; N Parua; A Patwa; P M Perea; E Perez; O Peters; P Pétroff; M Petteni; L Phaf; R Piegaia; P L M Podesta-Lerma; V M Podstavkov; Y Pogorelov; B G Pope; W L Prado da Silva; H B Prosper; S Protopopescu; M B Przybycien; J Qian; A Quadt; B Quinn; K J Rani; P A Rapidis; P N Ratoff; N W Reay; S Reucroft; M Rijssenbeek; I Ripp-Baudot; F Rizatdinova; C Royon; P Rubinov; R Ruchti; G Sajot; A Sánchez-Hernández; M P Sanders; A Santoro; G Savage; L Sawyer; T Scanlon; R D Schamberger; H Schellman; P Schieferdecker; C Schmitt; A A Schukin; A Schwartzman; R Schwienhorst; S Sengupta; H Severini; E Shabalina; M Shamim; V Shary; W D Shephard; D Shpakov; R A Sidwell; V Simak; V Sirotenko; P Skubic; P Slattery; R P Smith; K Smolek; G R Snow; J Snow; S Snyder; S Söldner-Rembold; X Song; Y Song; L Sonnenschein; A Sopczak; M Sosebee; K Soustruznik; M Souza; B Spurlock; N R Stanton; J Stark; J Steele; G Steinbrück; K Stevenson; V Stolin; A Stone; D A Stoyanova; J Strandberg; M A Strang; M Strauss; R Ströhmer; M Strovink; L Stutte; S Sumowidagdo; A Sznajder; M Talby; P Tamburello; W Taylor; P Telford; J Temple; S Tentindo-Repond; E Thomas; B Thooris; M Tomoto; T Toole; J Torborg; S Towers; T Trefzger; S Trincaz-Duvoid; B Tuchming; C Tully; A S Turcot; P M Tuts; L Uvarov; S Uvarov; S Uzunyan; B Vachon; R Van Kooten; W M van Leeuwen; N Varelas; E W Varnes; I A Vasilyev; M Vaupel; P Verdier; L S Vertogradov; M Verzocchi; F Villeneuve-Seguier; J-R Vlimant; E Von Toerne; M Vreeswijk; T Vu Anh; H D Wahl; R Walker; L Wang; Z-M Wang; J Warchol; M Warsinsky; G Watts; M Wayne; M Weber; H Weerts; M Wegner; N Wermes; A White; V White; D Whiteson; D Wicke; D A Wijngaarden; G W Wilson; S J Wimpenny; J Wittlin; M Wobisch; J Womersley; D R Wood; T R Wyatt; Q Xu; N Xuan; R Yamada; M Yan; T Yasuda; Y A Yatsunenko; Y Yen; K Yip; S W Youn; J Yu; A Yurkewicz; A Zabi; A Zatserklyaniy; M Zdrazil; C Zeitnitz; D Zhang; X Zhang; T Zhao; Z Zhao; B Zhou; J Zhu; M Zielinski; D Zieminska; A Zieminski; R Zitoun; V Zutshi; E G Zverev; A Zylberstejn; D0 Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.161801

Measurement of the ratio of inclusive cross sections sigma(pp --> Z + b jet)/sigma(pp --> Z + jet) at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Apr 29;94(16):161801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.161801. Epub 2005 Apr 27.

Authors

V M Abazov¹, B Abbott, M Abolins, B S Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, J-L Agram, S H Ahn, M Ahsan, G D Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, G A Alves, M Anastasoaie, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Asman, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, B Baldin, P W Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, J F Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begel, A Bellavance, S B Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, V A Bezzubov, P C Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, K M Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, T A Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, N J Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, T H Burnett, E Busato, J M Butler, J Bystricky, W Carvalho, B C K Casey, N M Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, K M Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, L Chevalier, D K Cho, S Choi, T Christiansen, L Christofek, D Claes, B Clément, C Clément, Y Coadou, M Cooke, W E Cooper, D Coppage, M Corcoran, J Coss, A Cothenet, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, M Cristetiu, M A C Cummings, D Cutts, H da Motta, B Davies, G Davies, G A Davis, K De, P de Jong, S J de Jong, E De la Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, S Dean, F Déliot, P A Delsart, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, S P Denisov, S Desai, H T Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, H Dong, S Doulas, L Duflot, S R Dugad, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, J T Eltzroth, V D Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, O V Eroshin, J Estrada, D Evans, H Evans, A Evdokimov, V N Evdokimov, J Fast, S N Fatakia, L Feligioni, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, H E Fisk, M Fortner, H Fox, W Freeman, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, C F Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, P Gay, D Gelé, R Gelhaus, K Genser, C E Gerber, Y Gershtein, G Ginther, T Golling, B Gómez, K Gounder, A Goussiou, P D Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, Z D Greenwood, E M Gregores, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, L Groer, S Grünendahl, M W Grünewald, S N Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, N J Hadley, S Hagopian, I Hall, R E Hall, C Han, L Han, K Hanagaki, K Harder, R Harrington, J M Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, J M Heinmiller, A P Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, G Hesketh, M D Hildreth, R Hirosky, J D Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, S J Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, J Huang, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, A S Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, V Jain, K Jakobs, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, H Jöstlein, A Juste, M M Kado, D Käfer, W Kahl, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, A M Kalinin, J Kalk, D Karmanov, J Kasper, D Kau, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, S Kesisoglou, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, Y M Kharzheev, K H Kim, B Klima, M Klute, J M Kohli, M Kopal, V M Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, A V Kozelov, J Kozminski, S Krzywdzinski, S Kuleshov, Y Kulik, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, S Lager, N Lahrichi, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, S W Lee, W M Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, P Lewis, J Li, Q Z Li, J G R Lima, D Lincoln, S L Linn, J Linnemann, V V Lipaev, R Lipton, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, H J Lubatti, L Lueking, M Lynker, A L Lyon, A K A Maciel, R J Madaras, P Mättig, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, N Makovec, P K Mal, S Malik, V L Malyshev, H S Mao, Y Maravin, M Martens, S E K Mattingly, A A Mayorov, R McCarthy, R McCroskey, D Meder, H L Melanson, A Melnitchouk, M Merkin, K W Merritt, A Meyer, H Miettinen, D Mihalcea, J Mitrevski, N Mokhov, J Molina, N K Mondal, H E Montgomery, R W Moore, G S Muanza, M Mulders, Y D Mutaf, E Nagy, M Narain, N A Naumann, H A Neal, J P Negret, S Nelson, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, S F Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, V O'Dell, D C O'Neil, V Oguri, N Oliveira, N Oshima, G J Otero y Garzón, P Padley, N Parashar, J Park, S K Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, P M Perea, E Perez, O Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, L Phaf, R Piegaia, P L M Podesta-Lerma, V M Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, B G Pope, W L Prado da Silva, H B Prosper, S Protopopescu, M B Przybycien, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, K J Rani, P A Rapidis, P N Ratoff, N W Reay, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, M P Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, R D Schamberger, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, A A Schukin, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, W D Shephard, D Shpakov, R A Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, R P Smith, K Smolek, G R Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, Y Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, N R Stanton, J Stark, J Steele, G Steinbrück, K Stevenson, V Stolin, A Stone, D A Stoyanova, J Strandberg, M A Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, S Tentindo-Repond, E Thomas, B Thooris, M Tomoto, T Toole, J Torborg, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, B Tuchming, C Tully, A S Turcot, P M Tuts, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, R Van Kooten, W M van Leeuwen, N Varelas, E W Varnes, I A Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, L S Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Vreeswijk, T Vu Anh, H D Wahl, R Walker, L Wang, Z-M Wang, J Warchol, M Warsinsky, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, M Wegner, N Wermes, A White, V White, D Whiteson, D Wicke, D A Wijngaarden, G W Wilson, S J Wimpenny, J Wittlin, M Wobisch, J Womersley, D R Wood, T R Wyatt, Q Xu, N Xuan, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, Y A Yatsunenko, Y Yen, K Yip, S W Youn, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zabi, A Zatserklyaniy, M Zdrazil, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, X Zhang, T Zhao, Z Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, R Zitoun, V Zutshi, E G Zverev, A Zylberstejn; D0 Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

PMID: 15904211
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.161801

Abstract

Using the data collected with the D0 detector at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV, for integrated luminosities of about 180 pb(-1), we have measured the ratio of inclusive cross sections for pp --> Z + b jet to pp --> Z + jet production. The inclusive Z + b-jet reaction is an important background to searches for the Higgs boson in associated ZH production at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Our measurement is the first of its kind, and relies on the Z --> e+ e- and Z --> mu+ mu- modes. The combined measurement of the ratio yields 0.021+/-0.005 for hadronic jets with transverse momenta pT > 20 GeV/c and pseudorapidities absolute value(eta) < 2.5, consistent with next-to-leading-order predictions of the standard model.