First measurement of W boson production in association with a single Charm quark in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV.

First measurement of W boson production in association with a single Charm quark in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV.

We present the first measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with a single charm quark (c) in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, using soft muon tagging of c jets. In a data sample of approximately 1.8 fb(-1), recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector at the Fermil...

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Main Authors: Aaltonen, T, Adelman, J, Akimoto, T, Albrow, MG, Alvarez González, B, Amerio, S, Amidei, D, Anastassov, A, Annovi, A, Antos, J, Aoki, M, Apollinari, G, Apresyan, A, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Ashmanskas, W, Attal, A, Aurisano, A, Azfar, F, Azzi-Bacchetta, P, Azzurri, P, Bacchetta, N, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barnes, V
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Summary:We present the first measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with a single charm quark (c) in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, using soft muon tagging of c jets. In a data sample of approximately 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 sigma Wc(PTc >20 GeV/c,|eta c|<1.5) x BR(W-->l nu)=9.8+/-3.2 pb, in agreement with theoretical expectations.

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