Effect of Hadron Contamination on Dielectron Signal Reconstruction in Heavy Flavor Production Measurements

Table 1

Signal in the mass range of  GeV/ for various hadron contamination levels.

	Signal	ratio	Significance	Goodness of fit: /NDF
Electrons only	1525 ± 50	4.3	32	46.9/33
Ele. + 10% hadr.	1500 ± 53	2.9	30	38.7/33
Ele. + 25% hadr.	1477 ± 58	1.9	27	41.3/33
Ele. + 50% hadr.	1513 ± 64	1.3	24	33.2/33
Ele. + 100% hadr.	1424 ± 76	0.7	19	49.8/33