Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-13-2019
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.99.092003
Abstract
Measurements of the differential production of electrons from open-heavy-flavor hadrons with charm- and bottom-quark content in p+p collisions at √s=200 GeV are presented. The measurements proceed through displaced-vertex analyses of electron tracks from the semileptonic decay of charm and bottom hadrons using the PHENIX silicon-vertex detector. The relative contribution of electrons from bottom decays to inclusive heavy-flavor-electron production is found to be consistent with fixed-order-plus-next-to-leading-log perturbative-QCD calculations within experimental and theoretical uncertainties. These new measurements in p+p collisions provide a precision baseline for comparable forthcoming measurements in A+A collisions.
Recommended Citation
Daugherity, Mike; Isenhower, Donald; and Towell, Rusty, "Measurement of charm and bottom production from semileptonic hadron decays in p + p collisions at √ s = 200 GeV" (2019). Engineering and Physics. 16.
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/engineer_physics/16
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