Search for Anomalous Heavy-Flavor Quark Production in Association with \u3ci\u3eW\u3c/i\u3e Bosons

Abstract

We search for anomalous production of heavy-flavor quark jets in association with W bosons at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̅ Collider in final states in which the heavy-flavor quark content is enhanced by requiring at least one tagged jet in an event. Jets are tagged using one algorithm based on semileptonic decays of b/c hadrons, and another on their lifetimes. We compare ℯ+ jets (164 pb-1) and μ+ jets (145 pb-1) channels collected with the D0 detector at √s = 1.96 TeV to expectations from the standard model and set upper limits on anomalous production of such events

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