Small Angle Muon and Bottom Quark Production in pbarp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Abstract
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This Letter describes a measurement of the muon cross section originating from b quark decay in the forward rapidity range 2.4 < y(mu) < 3.2 in pbarp collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV. The data used in this analysis were collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. We find that NLO QCD calculations underestimate b quark production by a factor of four in the forward rapidity region. A cross section measurement using muon+jet data has been included in this version of the paper.
12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRL
12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRL