Abstract
We present a measurement of the production cross section using of CDF II data using events with a high transverse momentum electron or muon, three or more jets, and missing transverse energy. The measurement assumes 100% branching fraction. Events consistent with decay are found by identifying jets containing heavy-flavor semileptonic decays to muons. The dominant backgrounds are evaluated directly from the data. Based on 20 candidate events and an expected background of events, we measure a production cross section of , in agreement with the standard model.
10 More- Received 1 June 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.032002
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