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First Measurement of W Boson Production in Association with a Single Charm Quark in pp Collisions at s√=1.96  TeV

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 100, no. 09, 091803
Publication date2008
Abstract

We present the first measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with a single charm quark (c) in pp collisions at s√=1.96  TeV, using soft muon tagging of c jets. In a data sample of ∼1.8  fb−1, recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab 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 σWc(pTc>20  GeV/c,|ηc|<1.5)×BR(W→ℓν)=9.8±3.2  pb, in agreement with theoretical expectations.

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CDF Collaboration. First Measurement of W Boson Production in Association with a Single Charm Quark in pp Collisions at s√=1.96  TeV. In: Physical review letters, 2008, vol. 100, n° 09, p. 091803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.091803
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