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Search for anomalous semileptonic decay of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson at CDF II

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
Publication date2006
Abstract

We present a search for anomalous semileptonic decays of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson in proton-antiproton collisions at s√=1.96  TeV. We use 162  pb−1 of data collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We select events with one W boson and at least one jet with an identified secondary vertex. In the jets with a secondary vertex we look for a semileptonic decay to a muon. We compare the number of jets with both a secondary vertex and a semileptonic decay and the kinematic properties of these jets, with the standard model expectation of W plus heavy flavor production and decay. No discrepancy is seen between the observation and the expectation, and we set limits on the production cross section of a B-like hadron with an anomalously high semileptonic branching ratio.

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CDF Collaboration. Search for anomalous semileptonic decay of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson at CDF II. In: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 2006, vol. 73, n° 05, p. 051101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.051101
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