We present the first measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with a single charm quark (c) in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, using soft muon tagging of c jets. In a data sample of similar to 1.8 fb(-1), recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron, we select events with W+1 or 2 jets. We use the charge correlation between the W and the muon from the semileptonic decay of a charm hadron to extract the Wc signal. We measure sigma(Wc)(P_T of the charm jet> 20 GeV/c,|eta(c)|< 1.5)xBR(W -> l nu)= (9.8 +/- 3.2) pb, in agreement with theoretical expectations.

T., A., J., A., T., A., M., A., B., Á.G., S., A., et al. (2008). First measurement of W boson production in association with a single charm quark in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 100(9), 091803-1-091803-7 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.091803].

First measurement of W boson production in association with a single charm quark in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV

CATASTINI, PIERLUIGI;GIUNTA, MICHELE;SCRIBANO, ANGELO;SQUILLACIOTI, PAOLA;TURINI, NICOLA;
2008-01-01

Abstract

We present the first measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with a single charm quark (c) in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, using soft muon tagging of c jets. In a data sample of similar to 1.8 fb(-1), recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron, we select events with W+1 or 2 jets. We use the charge correlation between the W and the muon from the semileptonic decay of a charm hadron to extract the Wc signal. We measure sigma(Wc)(P_T of the charm jet> 20 GeV/c,|eta(c)|< 1.5)xBR(W -> l nu)= (9.8 +/- 3.2) pb, in agreement with theoretical expectations.
2008
T., A., J., A., T., A., M., A., B., Á.G., S., A., et al. (2008). First measurement of W boson production in association with a single charm quark in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 100(9), 091803-1-091803-7 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.091803].
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