Inclusive charm production in two-photon collisions at LEP

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作者
Acciarri, M
Achard, P
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Ambrosi, G
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Angelescu, T
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Baksay, L
Balandras, A
Ball, RC
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Banicz, K
Barczyk, A
Barillère, R
Barone, L
Bartalini, P
Basile, M
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Bhattacharya, S
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Bock, R
Böhm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bourilkov, D
Bourquin, M
机构
[1] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[4] NIKHEF H, Natl Lab High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[6] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[7] Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, LAPP, IN2P3, CNRS, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[9] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[10] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[11] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[12] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[14] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[15] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[16] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[17] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[18] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[19] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[20] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[21] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[22] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[23] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[24] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[25] Res Inst High Energy Phys, SEFT, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[26] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[27] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[28] Univ Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[29] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[30] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[31] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[32] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[33] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[34] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[35] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[36] Univ Cyprus, Dept Nat Sci, Nicosia, Cyprus
[37] Catholic Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[38] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[39] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[40] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[41] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[42] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[43] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[44] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[45] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[46] Inst Phys Nucl, St Petersburg, Russia
[47] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[48] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[49] Univ Calif San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093 USA
[50] Univ Santiago, Dept Fis Particulas Elementales, E-15706 Santiago, Spain
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10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00274-9
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摘要
The cross section of charm production in gamma gamma collisions sigma(e(+)e(-) --> e(+)e(-)c (c) over bar X) is measured at LEP with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies from 91 GeV to 183 GeV. Charmed hadrons are identified by electrons and muons from semileptonic decays. The direct process gamma gamma --> c (c) over bar is found to be insufficient to describe the data. The measured cross section values and event distributions require contributions from resolved processes, which are sensitive to the gluon density in the photon, (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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