Measurement of D*± meson production and Fc2 in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA

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Adloff, C [1 ]
Andreev, V
Andrieu, B
Anthonis, T
Arkadov, V
Astvatsatourov, A
Babaev, A
Bähr, J
Baranov, P
Barrelet, E
Bartel, W
Bate, P
Beglarian, A
Behnke, O
Beier, C
Belousov, A
Benisch, T
Berger, C
Berndt, T
Bizot, JC
Boudry, V
Braunschweig, W
Brisson, V
Bröker, HB
Brown, DP
Brückner, W
Bruncko, D
Bürger, J
Büsser, FW
Bunyatyan, A
Burrage, A
Buschhorn, G
Campbell, AJ
Cao, J
Carli, T
Caron, S
Clarke, D
Clerbaux, B
Collard, C
Contreras, JG
Coppens, YR
Coughlan, JA
Cousinou, MC
Cox, BE
Cozzika, G
Cvach, J
Dainton, JB
Dau, WD
Daum, K
Davidsson, M
机构
[1] Berg Univ Gesamthsch Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys, Wuppertal, Germany
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[3] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[4] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Space Res, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[5] Univ Instelling Antwerp, InterUniv Inst High Energies, ULB, VUB, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
[6] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[7] Inst Phys Nucl, Krakow, Poland
[8] Joint Nucl Res Inst, Dubna, Russia
[9] CE Saclay, CEA, DSM, DAPNIA, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[10] DESY, D-2000 Hamburg, Germany
[11] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt Phys 2, D-2000 Hamburg, Germany
[12] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[13] Univ Heidelberg, Inst Phys, D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany
[14] Univ Heidelberg, Kirchhoff Inst Phys, D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany
[15] Univ Kiel, Inst Expt & Angew Phys, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
[16] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Expt Phys, Kosice 04353, Slovakia
[17] Univ Lancaster, Sch Phys & Chem, Lancaster LA1 4YW, England
[18] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
[19] Univ London Queen Mary & Westfield Coll, London E1 4NS, England
[20] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, S-22100 Lund, Sweden
[21] Univ Manchester, Dept Phys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[22] Univ Mediterranee, CPPM, CNRS, IN2P3, Marseille, France
[23] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[24] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow 117924, Russia
[25] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[26] Univ Paris 11, LAL, IN2P3, CNRS, Orsay, France
[27] Ecole Polytech, LPNHE, IN2P3, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
[28] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[29] Charles Univ, Fac Math & Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[30] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Fis, Rome, Italy
[31] INFN Roma 3, Rome, Italy
[32] Paul Scherrer Inst, Villigen, Switzerland
[33] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
[34] DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
[35] ETH Zurich, Inst Teilchenphys, Zurich, Switzerland
[36] Univ Zurich, Inst Phys, Zurich, Switzerland
[37] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Dept Phys, GR-15773 Zografos, Greece
[38] Berg Univ Gesamthsch Wuppertal, Rechenzentrum, Wuppertal, Germany
[39] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, Karlsruhe, Germany
[40] CINVESTAV, Dept Fis Aplicada, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
[41] Safarik Univ, Kosice, Slovakia
[42] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01195-4
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摘要
The inclusive production of D*+/-(2010) mesons in deep-inelastic scattering is studied with the HI detector at HERA. In the kinematic region 1 < Q(2) < 100 GeV2 and 0.05 < y < 0.7 an e(+) p cross section for inclusive D*+/- meson production of 8.50 +/- 0.42(stat.)(-100)(+1.21)(syst.) nb is measured in the visible range p(tD*) > 1.5 GeV and \eta(D*)\ < 1.5. Single and double differential inclusive D*+/- meson cross sections are compared to perturbative QCD calculations in two different evolution schemes, The charm contribution to the proton structure, F-c(2)(x, Q(2)), is determined by extrapolating the visible charm cross section to the full phase space. This contribution is found to rise from about 10% at Q(2) = 1.5 GeV2 to more than 25% at Q(2) = 60 GeV2 corresponding to x values ranging from 5 x 10(-5) to 3 x 10(-3). (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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