Abstract
We update the measurement of the production cross section using the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. This measurement uses decays to the final states and We search for b quarks from t decays via secondary-vertex identification or the identification of semileptonic decays of the b and cascade c quarks. The background to the production is determined primarily through a Monte Carlo simulation. However, we calibrate the simulation and evaluate its uncertainty using several independent data samples. For a top quark mass of we measure and using the secondary vertex and the lepton tagging algorithms, respectively. Finally, we combine these results with those from other decay channels and obtain
- Received 18 January 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.032002
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