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- Measurement of the Cross Section for open b-Quark Production in Two-Photon Interactions at LEP doi link

Author(s): Schael S., Barate R., Brunelière R., De Bonis I., Decamp D., Goy C., Jézéquel S., Lees J.P., Martin F., Merle E., Minard M.N., Pietrzyk B., Trocmé B., Badaud F., Dessagne S., Falvard Alain, Fayolle D., Gay P., Jousset J., Michel B., Monteil S., Pallin D., Pascolo J.M., Perret P., Blondel A., Brient J.-C., Machefert F., Rougé A., Videau H., Jacholkowska Agnieszka

(Article) Published: Journal Of High Energy Physics, vol. 09 p.102 (2007)
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Abstract:

Inclusive beauty-quark production in two-photon collisions has been measured at LEP using an integrated luminosity of 698 pb-1 collected by the ALEPH detector with sqrt(s) between 130 and 209 GeV. The b quarks were identified using lifetime information. The cross section is found to be sigma(e+ e- --> e+ e- b \bar{b} X) = (5.4 +/- 0.8 (stat) +/- 0.8 (syst)) pb which is consistent with Next-to-Leading Order QCD.



Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to JHEP