P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Measurement of the bb Production Cross Section in Proton-Nucleus Collisions at Hera-B P. Kreuzer University of California, Los Angeles For the Hera-B Collaboration ICHEP 2002 Conference Amsterdam, July  Motivations  The HERA-B spectrometer and trigger (Y2K)  The Measurement: b  J/  (l + l - ) + X  Comparison with Data & QCD Predictions  Conclusions (hep-ex/ submit. EPJ C)

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Motivations for a bb cross section measurement at Hera-B ExpTargp Beam  (bb) nb/nucleon Channel E789Au800 (GeV/c) 5.7  1.5  1.3b  J/  (   ) X E771Si800 (GeV/c) bb  (  + +X)(  - +X) 12   (bb )  70 nb/nucl. at 920 GeV/c (Hera-B) Fixed Target Data:  Hera-B can extend the experimental panorama  Recent improvements but still large uncertainties ! by covering both b  J/  ( e  ) and b  J/  (   ) & the non-exploited negative x F region A test for QCD Predictions: ()

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam The Hera-B Detector Carbon Titanium Y2K J/  -coverage: < x F < 0.15 ( now -0.4<x F <0.3 ) (920 GeV p-N interactions)

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam The Hera-B Di-lepton Trigger (Y2K) Pretrigger (5 MHz) E_t cut for e, hit coinc.for  Level I (~150 KHz) 2 leptons (ee,  ) requirement (no tracking ! ) Level II (~12 KHz) 2 tracks in Main Tracker and Vertex Detector di-e & di-  events (Farms of PCs, ~20 Hz output)

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam The measurement steps Minimize systematic errors & Avoid luminosity dependence Relative detection Efficiency Detached Vertex selection Efficiency  Select prompt J/   Select b  J/   Normalize to  (pN  J/  X) using E789/E771 g [-0.25 < x F < 0.15]

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Prompt J/  selection n P = 5710  380 st  280 sys n P = 2880  60 Muon Channel: Electron Channel: Reconstruction based on Trigger tracks + Vertex + Particle ID

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Isolating the b signal Total (prompt) J/  signalDetached b  J/  signal J/  l + l -  (  z)   c  B (600  m) (8000  m) IWIW l + J/  B zz X l - upstream | downstream zz IwIw

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam * bb -> (e + +X)(e - +X) * combinatorial * < 0.2 prompt J/  Detached b selection (e channel) Prompt region Upstream Downstream J/  peak Main Bkgd sources:

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Invariant Mass fit Unbinned Likelihood Fit: - Sig. shape from MC, - BKG shape data/MC e + e - invariant mass ( GeV/c 2 ) Electron channel: Muon channel: Unbinned Likelihood Fit: - Sig. shape from data, - BKG shape from data  (bb ) = nb/nucl (-0.25 < x F < 0.15)

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Systematic Uncertainties External (internal) sourcesCh Syst % rr ee 11 BR(bb  J/  X)ee 9 Trigger & detector sim. (  R )ee 5 b production/decay models MRST NNLL Parton Distr. F., Peterson Fragment., Pythia) ee 5 Prompt counting J/  (n p )e5 Prompt J/  MC prod. Mod.ee 2.5 A-dependence in  R   z B ee 1.7 Partial contributione-  Sources dominated by statistics ChSyst %  +  - bkg fluctuations  e + e - bkg shapee7 e + e - bkg fluctuations e11 Partial contribution e-  Total systematic uncertaintyee +20 % -23 %

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam R. Bonciani et al. (2002), NLO+NLL with latest MRST PDF Nucl.Phys.B529 (1998) Hera-B compared to other data/theory The result shows good agreement with recent calculations beyond NLO Hera-B 920 GeV: nb/nucl  TOT (bb ) = (92% b  J/  in our x F range) N. Kidonakis et al. (2001), NLO+NNLL Phys.Rev D64 (2001)

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam  Outlook 2002/3: O(1000) higher statistics !  Baseline Physics program -  (bb ): expected error 15% (systematic limited) - Charmonium production (J/ ,  ‘,  ), Atomic number dependence Conclusions  B  J/  X  l + l - X observed at Hera-B  Good compatibility with recent QCD calculations  Result: c

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Detector characteristics (I)  Large acceptance: mrad in x (bending plane), mrad in y (vertical plane)  Target – up to 8 wires inserted into the halo of 920 GeV proton beam (C, Ti)  VDS – Vertex Detector System. Dilepton vertex resolutions:  z  600  m,  x,y  70  m  Dipole Magnet- field integral 2.13 Tm  OTR – Outer Tracker. Honeycomb drift cells; wire pitch 5/10 mm; spatial hit resolution  350  m; Backward hemisfere in CM (negative x F ) World largerst honeycomb tracker: 1000 modules, channels  ITR – Inner Tracker: MicroStrip Gas Chambers, pitch 100  m, resolution 100  m; Forward hemisfere in CM (positive x F ) World largerst (gas) micro pattern tracker

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Detector characteristics (II)  RICH – Ring Imaging Cherenkov Hodoscope C 4 F 10 radiator gas, 2 planes of PMT 4  separation: e/  p  [3.4, 15] GeV/c,  /K p  [12,54] GeV/c  ECAL – Electromagnetic CALorimeter – Sandwich sampling calorimeter (“Shashlik”); Pb and W as converter; 3 regions  MUON detector – 4 tracking stations; Gas pixel chambers, Proportional tube chambers, some with segmented cathodes  DAQ system – High bandwidth, high trigger and logging rates  TRIGGER. - Pretriggers on ECAL & MUON seeds - FLT hardware based on ITR/OTR - SLT software trigger; Tracking+Vertexing; linux farm with 240 nodes  Event reconstruction; on-line, linux farm with 200 nodes

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam The cross section normalization E789 + E771 : 356  7  25 nb/nucleon E866 :  Relative detection efficiencies Efficiency of detected vertex selection Number of observed b  J/  and prompt J/  [-0.25<x F <0.15]

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Prompt J/  : Particle ID / Kinem.  BR =0.34  0.02  0.02 PID: E/P + bremsstrahlung Electron Channel: PID:  likelihoods from MUON and RICH detectors Muon Channel:

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Detached b  J/  cuts -  z > 0.5 cm - e  Imp. Param. wire I w > 200  m, or - Min. Z W to any other track > 250  m Optimization procedure: Electron Channel Cuts: Muon Channel Cuts: -  z > 7.5  z -   Imp. Param. to wire I w >45  m -   “ “ to primary vtx I p > 160  m

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam Systematic checks (e-channel DECAY LENGTH LIKELIHOOD FIT: MC =0.81  0.03 cm RD =1.00  0.30 cm BKG =0.36  0.13 cm Different bkg optimization: Upstream Downstream Dz (cm) Mass (ee) (GeV/c 2 ) Bkg e + e - invariant mass ( GeV/c 2 ) Entries / 100 MeV/c 2

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam  TOT (bb ) = nb/nucleon  (bb) Determination  Simultaneous fit to e + e - &  +  - (in Hera-B acceptance): Extrapolation to the full x F range: e-channel   (bb ) = nb/N  -channel   (bb ) = nb/N

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam J/  from b decays kinematics 92% of J/  are produced in our x F range

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam b production model For the x F and p T distributions of J/  from b decays, we need a model of the b quark production and hadronization Our b production & decay model: Based on HQ cross section calculation at NLO+NLL by M. Mangano, P. Nason and G. Ridolfi, Nucl. Phys. B373 (92) 295 Latest MRST parton distribution functions (NNLL) for nucleons Intrinsic k T of interacting partons is gaussian-distributed with = 0.5 GeV 2 b quarks fragmentation given by a Peterson function (  = 0.006) The b-hadron decays to J/  is controlled by Pythia 92% of J/  from b decays are produced in our x F range

P.Kreuzer – BBbar at Hera-B – ICHEP2002 Amsterdam b production model systematics Changing PDFs from MRST to CTEQ b quark mass from 4.5 to 5.0 GeV/c 2 QCD renormalization scale  from 0.5  o to 2  o Fragmentation functions –Peterson form with  from to –Kartvelishvili form with   from 12.4 to 15.0 from to 2.0 GeV 2 Fraction of b-baryons produced in the b-hadronization process from 0 to 12%  ±1.5%  ±1%  ±2%  ±3%  ±1%  ±2% Default model: MRST PDF, Peterson FF  =0.006 Total: ±5% Studied variations:Sys cont. to  (bb )

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