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First measurement of W boson production in association with a single Charm quark in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV |
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| Authors: | Aaltonen T Adelman J Akimoto T Albrow M G Alvarez González B Amerio S Amidei D Anastassov A Annovi A Antos J Aoki M Apollinari G Apresyan A Arisawa T Artikov A Ashmanskas W Attal A Aurisano A Azfar F Azzi-Bacchetta P Azzurri P Bacchetta N Badgett W Barbaro-Galtieri A Barnes V E Barnett B A Baroiant S Bartsch V Bauer G Beauchemin P-H Bedeschi F Bednar P Behari S Bellettini G Bellinger J Belloni A Benjamin D Beretvas A Beringer J Berry T Bhatti A Binkley M Bisello D Bizjak I Blair R E Blocker C Blumenfeld B Bocci A Bodek A Boisvert V Bolla G Bolshov A Bortoletto D Boudreau J Boveia A Brau B |
| Institution: | Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland. |
| Abstract: | We present the first measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with a single charm quark (c) in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, using soft muon tagging of c jets. In a data sample of approximately 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(PTc >20 GeV/c,|eta c|<1.5) x BR(W-->l nu)=9.8+/-3.2 pb, in agreement with theoretical expectations. |
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