Is There a Significant Excess in Bottom Hadroproduction at the Tevatron?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Cacciari, Matteo ^a   Nason, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

HADROPRODUCTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037120444     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.122003     Document Type: Article

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