Correlations in bottom quark pair production at the Fermilab TeVatron |
Posted on:2011-08-09 | Degree:Ph.D | Type:Dissertation |
University:Carnegie Mellon University | Candidate:Galyardt, Jason | Full Text:PDF |
GTID:1440390002952993 | Subject:Physics |
Abstract/Summary: | |
I present an analysis of bb¯ pair production correlations, using dimuon-triggered data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) in pp¯ collisions at s =1.96 TeV during Run II of the TeVatron. The leading order (LO) and next-to-leading order (NLO) b quark production processes are discriminated by the angular and momentum correlations between the bb¯ pair. Track-level jets containing a muon are classified by b quark content and used to estimate the momentum vector of the progenitor b quark. The theoretical distributions given by the MC NLO event generator are tested against the data. |
Keywords/Search Tags: | Quark, Correlations, Pair, Production |
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