Measurement of charm and beauty production in deep inelastic ep scattering from decays into muons 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. [6 ]
Heath, G. P. [6 ]
Morris, J. D. [6 ]
Kaur, M. [7 ]
Kaur, P. [7 ,61 ]
Singh, I. [7 ,61 ]
Capua, M. [8 ,9 ]
Fazio, S. [8 ,9 ]
Mastroberardino, A. [8 ,9 ]
Schioppa, M. [8 ,9 ]
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] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Bristol, Avon, England
[7] Panjab Univ, Dept Phys, Chandigarh 160014, India
[8] Univ Calabria, Dept Phys, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy
[9] Univ Calabria, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy
[10] Chonnam Natl Univ, Kwangju, South Korea
[11] Univ Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
[12] Columbia Univ, Nevis Labs, Irvington, NY 10027 USA
[13] Polish Acad Sci, Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[14] AGH Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Phys & Appl Comp Sci, Krakow, Poland
[15] Jagiellonian Univ, Dept Phys, Krakow, Poland
[16] Deutsch Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
[17] Deutsch Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
[18] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[19] Univ Florence, Florence, Italy
[20] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany
[21] Univ Glasgow, Dept Phys & Astron, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
[22] Univ Aegean, Dept Engn Management & Finance, Aegean, Greece
[23] Univ Hamburg, Inst Exp Phys, Hamburg, Germany
[24] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, High Energy Nucl Phys Grp, London, England
[25] High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Inst Particle & Nucl Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[26] Minist Educ & Sci Kazakhstan, Inst Phys & Technol, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan
[27] Natl Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Kiev, Ukraine
[28] Kiev Natl Univ, Kiev, Ukraine
[29] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu, South Korea
[30] Catholic Univ Louvain, Inst Phys Nucl, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium
[31] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, Madrid, Spain
[32] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[33] Meiji Gakuin Univ, Fac Gen Educ, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
[34] Moscow Engn Phys Inst, Moscow 115409, Russia
[35] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow, Russia
[36] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, Munich, Germany
[37] NIKHEF & Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[38] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[39] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford, England
[40] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy
[41] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis, Padua, Italy
[42] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[43] Polytech Univ, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[44] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[45] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Rome, Italy
[46] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[47] Tel Aviv Univ, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Fac Exact Sci, Sch Phys, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[48] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 152, Japan
[49] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
[50] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Dept Phys, Tokyo, Japan
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2010年 / 65卷 / 1-2期
关键词
PHYSICS EVENT GENERATION; MONTE-CARLO GENERATOR; H1 VERTEX DETECTOR; ZEUS BARREL; CROSS-SECTIONS; D-ASTERISK; DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION; MESONS; FRAGMENTATION;
D O I
10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1193-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 charm and beauty quarks in ep interactions has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA for squared four-momentum exchange Q(2) > 20 GeV2, using an integrated luminosity of 126 pb(-1). Charm and beauty quarks were identified through their decays into muons. Differential cross sections were measured for muon transverse momenta p(T)(mu) > 1.5 GeV and pseudorapidities - 1.6 < eta(mu) < 2.3, as a function of p(T)(mu), eta(mu), Q(2) and Bjorken x. The charm and beauty contributions to the proton structure function F-2 were also extracted. The results agree with previous measurements based on independent techniques and are well described by QCD predictions.
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