Research Article
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 |
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