Definitions
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- noun physics the
bottom antiquark
Etymologies
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Examples
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You may define the corresponding fraction of all the events and normalize it in the same way as you would do with bottom-antibottom collisions.
The Reference Frame 2008
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If you now interpret the Tevatron as a machine where you effectively collide bottom-antibottom pairs, it has a smaller luminosity because only a small portion of the proton-antiproton collisions included protons and antiprotons that were "ready to make heavy flavor collisions".
The Reference Frame 2008
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There are no bottom-antibottom pairs in the initial states of these "ghost events" so you can't simplify the calculation by assuming that they have bottom-antibottom initial states.
The Reference Frame 2008
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Could be a pair of top-antitop or bottom antibottom or two photons or two Z0s … OK!
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