We report a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry, AFB, in bb pairs produced in proton-antiproton collisions and identified by muons from semileptonic b-hadron decays. The event sample is collected at a center-of-mass energy of s=1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector and corresponds to 6.9 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. We obtain an integrated asymmetry of AFB(bb)=(1.2±0.7)% at the particle level for b-quark pairs with invariant mass, mbb, down to 40 GeV/c2 and measure the dependence of AFB(bb) on mbb. The results are compatible with expectations from the standard model.

Aaltonen, T., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., Antos, J., et al. (2016). Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in low-mass bottom-quark pairs produced in proton-antiproton collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 93(11) [10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112003].

Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in low-mass bottom-quark pairs produced in proton-antiproton collisions

BARRIA, PATRIZIA;CATASTINI, PIERLUIGI;CAVALIERE, VIVIANA;MAESTRO, PAOLO;RUFFINI, FABRIZIO;
2016-01-01

Abstract

We report a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry, AFB, in bb pairs produced in proton-antiproton collisions and identified by muons from semileptonic b-hadron decays. The event sample is collected at a center-of-mass energy of s=1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector and corresponds to 6.9 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. We obtain an integrated asymmetry of AFB(bb)=(1.2±0.7)% at the particle level for b-quark pairs with invariant mass, mbb, down to 40 GeV/c2 and measure the dependence of AFB(bb) on mbb. The results are compatible with expectations from the standard model.
2016
Aaltonen, T., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., Antos, J., et al. (2016). Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in low-mass bottom-quark pairs produced in proton-antiproton collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 93(11) [10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112003].
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