creator Matera, Keith editor Chekanov, Sergei editor Sullivan, Zack The heavy quark content associated with gauge boson production is of great interest to studies of QCD. These events probe the gluon and heavy-quark parton distribution functions of the proton, and also provide a measurement of the rate of final state gluon splitting to heavy favor. In addition, gauge boson plus heavy quark events are representative of backgrounds to Higgs, single top, and supersymmetric particle searches. Recent work with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron has measured the cross-section of several gauge boson plus heavy flavor production processes, including the first Tevatron observation of specific charm process p͞p → W + c. Results are found to be in agreement with NLO predictions that include an enhanced rate of g → c͞c =b͞b splitting. Lastly, a new analysis promises to probe a lower pT (c) region than has yet been explored, by fully reconstructing D* → D^0 (Kπ)π decays in the full CDF dataset (9:7 fb^1). Submitted by Alicia Esquivel (aesquivel@iit.edu) on 2018-06-25T19:47:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 03_Matera.pdf: 876630 bytes, checksum: 47ac96e81ad992254d5766d16ed75713 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-25T19:47:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 03_Matera.pdf: 876630 bytes, checksum: 47ac96e81ad992254d5766d16ed75713 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-09-15 IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory 2013-09-15 2013 2013-09-15 en IIT Press Book part born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access PHYS / Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:10117