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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 091803 (2008)
hep-ex/0711.2901
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Alice Bridgeman, Lucio Cerrito, Ulysses Grundler, Tony Liss, Xiaojian Zhang
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| Abstract |
We present the first measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with
a single charm quark (c) in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV,
using soft muon tagging of c jets.
In a data sample of ~1.8 fb-1, recorded with the CDF 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}(pT,c>20 GeV/c, |etac|<1.5) x BR(W->l\nu) = 9.8+/-3.2 pb,
in agreement with theoretical expectations.
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| Comments |
Last Update: March 2008 Dataset: 1.8 fb-1
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