Measurement of D± and D0 production in deep inelastic scattering using a lifetime tag at HERA

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作者
Chekanov, S. [1 ]
Derrick, M. [1 ]
Magill, S. [1 ]
Musgrave, B. [1 ]
Nicholass, D. [1 ]
Repond, J. [1 ]
Yoshida, R. [1 ]
Mattingly, M. C. K. [2 ]
Antonioli, P. [3 ]
Bari, G. [3 ]
Bellagamba, L. [3 ]
Boscherini, D. [3 ]
Bruni, A. [3 ]
Bruni, G. [3 ]
Cindolo, F. [3 ]
Corradi, M. [3 ]
Iacobucci, G. [3 ]
Margotti, A. [3 ]
Nania, R. [3 ]
Polini, A. [3 ]
Antonelli, S. [3 ,4 ]
Basile, M. [3 ,4 ]
Bindi, M. [3 ,4 ]
Cifarelli, L. [3 ,4 ]
Contin, A. [3 ,4 ]
De Pasquale, S. [3 ,4 ]
Sartorelli, G. [3 ,4 ]
Zichichi, A. [3 ,4 ]
Bartsch, D. [5 ]
Brock, I. [5 ]
Hartmann, H. [5 ]
Hilger, E. [5 ]
Jakob, H. -P. [5 ]
Juengst, M. [5 ]
Nuncio-Quiroz, A. E. [5 ]
Paul, E. [5 ]
Samson, U. [5 ]
Schoenberg, V. [5 ]
Shehzadi, R. [5 ]
Wlasenko, M. [5 ]
Brook, N. H. [52 ]
Heath, G. P. [52 ]
Morris, J. D. [52 ]
Kaur, M. [6 ]
Kaur, P. [6 ,61 ]
Singh, I. [6 ,61 ]
Capua, M. [7 ,53 ]
Fazio, S. [7 ,53 ]
Mastroberardino, A. [7 ,53 ]
Schioppa, M. [7 ,53 ]
机构
[1] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[2] Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[4] Univ Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[5] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-5300 Bonn, Germany
[6] Panjab Univ, Dept Phys, Chandigarh, India
[7] Univ Calabria, Dept Phys, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy
[8] Chonnam Natl Univ, Kwangju, South Korea
[9] Univ Malaya, Jabatan Fiz, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
[10] Columbia Univ, Nevis Labs, Irvington, NY 10027 USA
[11] Polish Acad Sci, Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[12] AGH Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Phys & Appl Comp Sci, Krakow, Poland
[13] Jagiellonian Univ, Dept Phys, Krakow, Poland
[14] Deutsch Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
[15] Deutsch Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
[16] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[17] Univ Florence, Florence, Italy
[18] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany
[19] Univ Glasgow, Dept Phys & Astron, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
[20] Univ Aegean, Dept Engn Management & Finance, Mitilini, Greece
[21] Univ Hamburg, Inst Exp Phys, Hamburg, Germany
[22] Natl Lab High Energy Phys, KEK, Inst Particle & Nucl Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[23] Minist Educ & Sci Kazakhstan, Inst Phys & Technol, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan
[24] Kiev & Kiev Natl Univ, Natl Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Kiev, Ukraine
[25] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu, South Korea
[26] Catholic Univ Louvain, Inst Phys Nucl, B-1348 Louvain, Belgium
[27] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, Madrid, Spain
[28] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[29] Meiji Gakuin Univ, Fac Gen Educ, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
[30] Moscow Engn Phys Inst, Moscow 115409, Russia
[31] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow, Russia
[32] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[33] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[34] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[35] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy
[36] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis, Padua, Italy
[37] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[38] Polytech Univ, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[39] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[40] Tel Aviv Univ, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Fac Exact Sci, Sch Phys, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[41] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 152, Japan
[42] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
[43] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Dept Phys, Tokyo, Japan
[44] Univ Turin, Turin, Italy
[45] Univ Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
[46] Univ Toronto, Dept Phys, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[47] Warsaw Univ, Inst Expt Phys, Warsaw, Poland
[48] Inst Nucl Studies, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[49] Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Particle Phys, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[50] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2009年 / 63卷 / 02期
关键词
O(ALPHA-S) CORRECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONS; ZEUS; DESIGN; QUARK; CONSTRUCTION; FRAGMENTATION; DISTRIBUTIONS; PERFORMANCE; LUMINOSITY;
D O I
10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1088-x
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
The production of D-+/-- and D-0-mesons has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 133.6 pb(-1). The measurements cover the kinematic range 5 < Q(2) < 1000 GeV2, 0.02 < y < 0.7, 1.5 < p(T)(D) < 15 GeV and |eta(D)| < 1.6. Combinatorial background to the D-meson signals is reduced by using the ZEUS microvertex detector to reconstruct displaced secondary vertices. Production cross sections are compared with the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD, which is found to describe the data well. Measurements are extrapolated to the full kinematic phase space in order to obtain the open-charm contribution, F-2(c (c) over bar), to the proton structure function, F-2.
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页码:171 / 188
页数:18
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