Published: 2005
Total Pages: 259
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Using the data collected with the D0 detector at √s = 1.96 TeV with integrated luminosities of about 180 pb-1, we have measured the ratio of inclusive cross sections for p$ar{p}$ → Z + b-jet to p$ar{p}$ → Z + jet production. The inclusive Z + b-jet reaction is an important background to searches for the Higgs boson in associated ZH production at the Fermilab Tevatron collider and is sensitive to the b quark content of the proton. This thesis describes our measurement which is performed using the dimuon decay channel of the Z boson, id est Z → ?+?-. The ratio in the dimuon channel is measured to be 1.86 ± 0.44(stat)$+0.24top{-0.28}$(syst)% for hadronic jets with transverse momenta pT > 20 GeV/c and pseudorapidities.