Measurement of sigma (pp -> b bbar X) at sqrt(s)=7 TeV in the forward region

Aaij, R.; Beteta, C. Abellan; Adeva, B.; Adinolfi, M.; Adrover, C.; Affolder, A.; Agari, M.; Ajaltouni, Z.; Albrecht, J.; Alessio, F.; Alexander, M.; Alfonsi, M.; Alvarez Cartelle, P.; Alves, A. A.; Amato, S.; Amhis, Y.; Amoraal, J.; Anderson, J.; Nobrega, R. Antunes; Appleby, R.; Gutierrez, O. Aquines; Arefyev, A.; Arrabito, L.; Artuso, M.; Aslanides, E.; Auriemma, G.; Bachmann, S.; Bagaturia, Y.; Bailey, D. S.; Balagura, V.; Baldini, W.; Barber, G.; Barham, C.; Barlow, R. J.; Barsuk, S.; Basiladze, S.; Bates, A.; Bauer, C.; Bauer, Th.; Bay, A.; Bediaga, I.; Bellunato, T.; Belous, K.; Belyaev, I.; Benayoun, M.; Bencivenni, G.; Bernet, R.; Bernhard, R. P.; Bettler, M.-O.; van Beuzekom, M.; Bibby, J. H.; Bifani, S.; Bizzeti, A.; Bjornstad, P. M.; Blake, T.; Blanc, F.; Blanks, C.; Blouw, J.; Blusk, S.; Bobrov, A.; Bocci, V.; Bochin, B.; Bonaccorsi, E.; Bondar, A.; Bondar, N.; Bonivento, W.; Borghi, S.; Borgia, A.; Bos, E.; Bowcock, T. J. V.; Bozzi, C.; Brambach, T.; van den Brand, J.; Brarda, L.; Bressieux, J.; Brisbane, S.; Britsch, M.; Brook, N. H.; Brown, H.; Brusa, S.; Buechler-Germann, A.; Bursche, A.; Buytaert, J.; Cadeddu, S.; Carvajal, J. M. Caicedo; Callot, O.; Calvi, M.; Calvo Gomez, M.; Camboni, A.; Cameron, W.; Camilleri, L.; Campana, P.; Carbone, A.; Carboni, G.; Cardinale, R.; Cardini, A.; Carroll, J.; Carson, L.; Akiba, K. Carvalho; Casse, G.; et al.

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.10.010

research article

Measurement of sigma (pp -> b bbar X) at sqrt(s)=7 TeV in the forward region

Aaij, R.

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Beteta, C. Abellan

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Adeva, B.

2010

Physics Letters B

Decays of b hadrons into final states containing a D-0 meson and a muon are used to measure the b (b) over bar; production cross-section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC. In the pseudorapidity interval 2 < eta < 6 and integrated over all transverse momenta we find that the average cross-section to produce b-flavoured or (b) over bar -flavoured hadrons is (75.3 +/- 5.4 +/- 13.0) mu b. (C) 2010 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.