Speaker
Braden Keim Abbott
(University of Oklahoma (US))
Description
We present a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B± mesons, Λb baryons and Λ baryons in 10.4 fb−1 of ppbar collisions at √s=1.96 TeV collected by the D0 experiment during Run II of the Tevatron collider. Nonzero asymmetries would indicate a preference for a particular flavor, i.e., b quark or b antiquark, to be produced in the direction of the proton beam. These measurements provide important constraints on the production mechanisms of heavy quarks at hadron colliders.
Author
Braden Keim Abbott
(University of Oklahoma (US))
