1. Measurement of the $b\overline{b}$ production cross section in 920 GeV fixed-target proton-nucleus collisions
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R. Spighi, Dmitry Emeliyanov, H. Fleckenstein, Jian Wang, R. van Staa, S. Hausmann, Y. Pylypchenko, T. Glebe, Antonio Zoccoli, R. Chistov, D. Samtleben, I. Siccama, Imma Riu, C. B. Krauss, B. Bobchenko, A. Hoscher, T. Zeuner, I. C. Legrand, W. Hulsbergen, Y. Jia, Z. Zheng, J. Flammer, R. Baghshetsyan, A. Bogatyrev, D. Broemmelsiek, Olga Igonkina, K. E. K. Gerndt, D. Skrk, Y. Vassiliev, M. Hildebrandt, V. Balagura, J. Bastos, G. Zech, A. Mohapatra, A. Belkov, Valery Pugatch, M. Bräuer, G.J. Wagner, H. Kapitza, M. A. Pleier, S. Gradl, A. Schreiner, Maurizio Piccinini, H. Thurn, Sebastian Nowak, V. Rusinov, Th. S. Bauer, B. X. Chen, R. Mizuk, V. Souvorov, T. Buran, D. Wegener, W. Gradl, S. Essenov, L. Seybold, Søren Schmidt, K. Riechmann, R. Pernack, S. Issever, S. Karabekyan, J. Rosen, Z. Ke, B. Lomonosov, J. Rieling, V. Eiges, H. Albrecht, Vincenzo Vagnoni, P. J. Weyers, R. Loke, S. Somov, M. Ouchrif, H. Wahlberg, M. Böcker, A. Pose, I. Belyaev, A. Lange, K. M. Danielsen, Jenny Ivarsson, M. Capponi, M. Atiya, V. Amaral, I. Massa, A. Abyzov, T. Oest, G. Medin, D. Galli, F. Eisele, Hyun-Chul Kim, Samim Erhan, T. Zivko, U. Marconi, S. Masciocchi, D. Pose, M. Symalla, S. J. Aplin, F. Sanchez, C. van Eldik, Marco Bruschi, H. Sun, A. Michetti, Paul Edmund Karchin, H. Deppe, A. Kaoukher, W. Ruckstuhl, D. Peralta, Z. Zhu, B. Moshous, Peter Robmann, S. De Castro, I. Vukotic, V. Egorytchev, A. Oliveira, M. Rietz, A. Arefiev, P. Kreuzer, J. Shiu, S. Xella-Hansen, David Gascon, U. Schwanke, Ramon Miquel, C. Rothe, H. D. Schultz, H. B. Dreis, K. Berkhan, T. Hott, Peter E. Schlein, J. Luidemann, Y. Wang, C. Stegmann, A. Vitale, Andrej Gorišek, A. Bertin, M. Walter, S. Semenov, C. Borgmeier, M. Poli, Helmut Wolters, Farid Ould-Saada, T. Fuljahn, L. Garrido, F. Ratnikov, I. Tikhomirov, C. Jiang, O. Barsukova, A. Spiridonov, A. Stanovnik, O. Gouchtchine, S. Shuvalov, F. Klefenz, Ulrich Werthenbach, D. Ryzhikov, Wolfgang Wagner, A. Christensen, Mike Medinnis, O. Steinkamp, S. Steinbeck, J. Glass, R. F. Schwitters, R. Pestotnik, M. T. N. P. de Vera, Robert Harr, V. Saveliev, G. Bohm, M. Spahn, Hermann Kolanoski, B. Schwingenheuer, Nicola Semprini-Cesari, M. Schmelling, Pietro Faccioli, V. Aushev, Y. Guilitsky, B. Dolgoshein, M. Capeans, J. Yang, R. Wanke, F. Sun, M. Mevius, Christian Bauer, Laura Fabbri, F. Saadi-Ludemannm, Thomas Hamacher, Antonio Sbrizzi, C. Padilla, U. Uwer, I. Belotelov, M. Nörenberg, T. Perschke, H. Schröder, A. Wurz, J. Zweizig, S. F. Takach, J. Chamanina, M. Titov, J. D. Hansen, X. Dong, B. A. A. Petersen, Mogens Dam, L. Sozuer, K. Hofner, P. Krizan, D. Goloubkov, Y. Bagaturia, I. Negri, G. Leffers, S. Barsuk, M. Beck, M. Bargiotti, B. Fominykh, S. Solunin, A. Soldatov, F Sciacca, Marcus Hohlmann, Klaus Dehmelt, W. Schmidt-Parzefall, W. Fallot-Burghardt, M. Ispiryan, D. Dujmic, I. Tsakov, L. Matchikhilian, S. Spratte, D. Ressing, R. Zimmermann, H. Itterbeck, V. Kochetkov, R. Eckmann, P. Conde, Igor Golutvin, T. Jagla, A. Garcia, N. N. Karpenko, A. Amorim, A. Moshkin, T. Walter, Ulrich Husemann, I. Arino, João Carvalho, Yu. Zaitsev, D. Krucker, H. Deckers, M. Danilov, C. Cruse, R Stdenis, M. Dressel, Peter Buchholz, A. H. Walenta, I. Gorbounov, R. Mankel, Kwong Lau, A. Gellrich, M. Funcke, T. Kvaratskheliia, R. Wurth, M. Chmeissani, B. Lewende, S. Ramachandran, A. S. Schwarz, R. Manner, A. J. Schwartz, A. Golutvin, S. Nam, M. Bruinsma, P. Pakhlov, Kendall Reeves, M. Sang, K. Ehret, I. Kisel, M. Buchler, F. Khasanov, Thomas Lohse, S. Fourletov, S. Keller, I. Abt, J. Spengler, U. Trunk, A. Lanyov, A. Zhelezov, K. T. Knöpfle, Yang Liu, U. Straumann, D. Stieler, Jose M Hernandez, B. Giacobbe, M. Adams, N. Tesch, E. Sexauer, Yu.V. Mikhailov, M. Negodaev, Mikhail Zavertyaev, D. C. Goulart, M. Starič, A. Somov, Yu. Pavlenko, S. Schaller, V. Popov, Werner Hofmann, J. Pyrlik, B. Schwenninger, Mauro Villa, Samo Korpar, Yu.T. Kiryushin, M. Feuerstack-Raible, V. Rybnikov, V. Bassetti, P. Truöl, B. Schmidt, R. Muresan, C. Hast, Geometry, (Astro)-Particles Physics, Mathematical Analysis, and Business Web and Media
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Proton ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Nuclear Theory ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Sigma ,HERA ,01 natural sciences ,Bottom quark ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,Cross section (physics) ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Production (computer science) ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,HERA-B ,Bar (unit) - Abstract
Using the HERA-B detector, the b-bbar production cross section has been measured in 920 GeV proton collisions on carbon and titanium targets. The b-bbar production was tagged via inclusive bottom quark decays into J/psi, by exploiting the longitudinal separation of J/psi->ll decay vertices from the primary proton-nucleus interaction. Both $e^+e^-$ and $\mu^+\mu^-$ channels have been reconstructed and the combined analysis yields the cross section $\sigma(b \bar b) = 32 ^{+14}_{-12} (stat) ^{+6}_{-7} (sys) nb/nucleon$., Comment: 22 pages, 10 Postscript figures
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- 2003
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