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Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of b± mesons in p p ¯ collisions at s =1.96TeV

  • V. M. Abazov
  • , B. Abbott
  • , B. S. Acharya
  • , M. Adams
  • , T. Adams
  • , J. P. Agnew
  • , G. D. Alexeev
  • , G. Alkhazov
  • , A. Alton
  • , A. Askew
  • , S. Atkins
  • , K. Augsten
  • , C. Avila
  • , F. Badaud
  • , L. Bagby
  • , B. Baldin
  • , D. V. Bandurin
  • , S. Banerjee
  • , E. Barberis
  • , P. Baringer
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  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • University of Oklahoma Bioengineering Center
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
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  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
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Abstract

We present a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons, AFB(B±), using B±→J/ψK± decays in 10.4fb-1 of pp¯ collisions at s=1.96TeV collected by the D0 experiment during Run II of the Tevatron collider. A nonzero asymmetry would indicate a preference for a particular flavor, i.e., b quark or b¯ antiquark, to be produced in the direction of the proton beam. We extract AFB(B±) from a maximum likelihood fit to the difference between the numbers of forward- and backward-produced B± mesons. We measure an asymmetry consistent with zero: AFB(B±)=[-0.24±0.41(stat)±0.19(syst)]%.

Original languageEnglish
Article number051803
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume114
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Feb 2015

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