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Author(s): |
The SLD Collaboration |
Presenting author:
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Tracy Usher |
Corresponding author's
e-mail: |
usher@slac.stanford.edu |
Title of the
presentation: |
B-Bbar Energy Correlations
in Z^0->bb Decays |
Link to the full
paper: |
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Session of 1st preference: |
1-Hard High Energy QCD and
Structure Functions |
Session of 2nd preference: |
4-Heavy Flavor |
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Abstract |
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We present a
preliminary first measurement of the correlation between
the energies of the leading B hadrons produced in
Z^0->b bbar decays. The measurement was performed
using hadronic Z^0 events recorded in the SLD experiment
at SLAC between 1996 and 1998. The small and stable SLC
beam spot and the CCD-based vertex detector were used to
reconstruct B decay vertices with high efficiency and
purity. They also enabled us to measure B hadron
energies with good efficiency and resolution over the
full kinematic range. In events with two tagged B
hadrons, we calculated moments of the 2D energy
distribution and compared the measured correlation with
a leading order QCD calculation and with the Peterson
fragmentation model. |
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