Fragmentation is the process by which bare quarks dress themselves up as hadrons. Since we cannot get reliable calculations of this process using perturbative quantum chromodynamics, the fragmentation properties of quarks must be obtained empirically. We report on the signal extraction and relative transverse momentum (pT) spectrum determination that will lead to a high precision measurement of relative fragmentation fractions of b quarks into B hadrons, in 1.96 TeV pp¯ collisions. Using 1.9 fb-1 of data taken with the CDF-II detector, we fully reconstruct 473 +/- 42 B0s→D-sp + , 15206 +/- 203 B0 → D-pi+, 1483 +/- 45 B0 → D*-pi + and 4444 +/- 297 L0b→L+ cp- candidate decays. In order to reduce systematic uncertainties, ratios of pT spectra are reported. We find that Bs and B0 mesons are produced with similar pT and Λb baryons are produced with lower pT than B0 mesons. Our results are consistent with previous CDF measurements suggesting a difference between fragmentation processes observed at lepton and hadron colliders.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.112357 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Roy, Philippe, 1983- |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002770375, proquestno: AAIMR51335, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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