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Kenji Abe et al

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arXiv1999

Study of the structure of e+e- -> b bbar g events and improved limits on the anomalous chromomagnetic coupling of the b-quark

The structure of e+e- -> bbg events was studied using Z0 decays recorded in the SLD experiment at SLAC. Three-jet final states were selected and the CCD-based vertex detector was used to identify two of the jets as b or bbar. Distributions of the gluon energy and polar angle were measured over the full kinematic range, and compared with perturbative QCD predictions. The energy distribution is potentially sensitive to an anomalous b chromomagnetic moment kappa. We measured kappa to be consistent with zero and set limits on its value, -0.11 < kappa < 0.08 at 95% c.l. (preliminary).

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arXiv1999

Measurement of the probability for gluon splitting into b bbar in Z0 decays

We present a preliminary measurement of the rate of gluon splitting into bottom quarks, g -> b bbar, in hadronic Z0 decays collected by SLD between 1996 and 1998. The analysis was performed by looking for secondary bottom production in 4-jet events of any primary flavour. 4-jet events were identified, and a topological vertex-mass technique was applied to each jet in order to identify b or bbar jets. The upgraded CCD based vertex detector gives very high B-tagging efficiency, especially for B hadrons of the low energies typical of this process. The two most nearly collinear b/bbar jets were tagged as originating from g -> b bbar. We measured the rate of secondary b/bbar production per hadronic event, g_bb, to be (3.07+-0.71(stat.)+-0.66(syst.)) * 10**-3.

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arXiv1999

First study of the structure of e+e- -> b bbar g events and limits on the anomalous chromomagnetic moment of the b-quark

The structure of e+e- -> b bbar g events was studied using Z0 decays recorded in the SLD experiment at SLAC. Three-jet final states were selected and the CCD-based vertex detector was used to identify two of the jets as b or bbar. Distributions of the gluon energy and polar angle were measured over the full kinematic range for the first time, and compared with perturbative QCD predictions. The energy distribution is potentially sensitive to an anomalous b chromomagnetic moment kappa. We measured kappa to be consistent with zero and set the first limits on its value, -0.17 < kappa < 0.11 at 95% c.l.

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