Study of charm fragmentation into D * ± mesons in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA

被引:30
作者
Aaron, F. D. [1 ,43 ]
Alexa, C. [1 ]
Andreev, V. [26 ]
Antunovic, B. [12 ]
Aplin, S. [12 ]
Asmone, A. [34 ,50 ]
Astvatsatourov, A. [5 ,6 ]
Bacchetta, A. [12 ]
Backovic, S. [31 ]
Baghdasaryan, A. [39 ]
Barrelet, E. [30 ,49 ]
Bartel, W. [12 ]
Beckingham, M. [12 ]
Begzsuren, K. [36 ]
Behnke, O. [15 ]
Belousov, A. [26 ]
Berger, N. [41 ]
Bizot, J. C. [28 ]
Boenig, M. -O. [9 ]
Boudry, V. [29 ]
Bozovic-Jelisavcic, I. [3 ]
Bracinik, J. [4 ]
Brandt, G. [12 ]
Brinkmann, M. [12 ]
Brisson, V. [28 ]
Bruncko, D. [17 ]
Bunyatyan, A. [14 ,39 ]
Buschhorn, G. [27 ]
Bystritskaya, L. [25 ]
Campbell, A. J. [12 ,19 ]
Cantun Avila, K. B. [23 ]
Cassol-Brunner, F.
Cerny, K. [33 ]
Cerny, V. [17 ,44 ]
Chekelian, V. [27 ]
Cholewa, A. [12 ]
Contreras, J. G. [23 ]
Coughlan, J. A. [7 ]
Cozzika, G. [11 ]
Cvach, J. [32 ]
Dainton, J. B. [19 ]
Daum, K. [38 ,45 ]
Deak, M. [12 ]
de Boer, Y.
Delcourt, B. [28 ]
Del Degan, M. [41 ]
Delvax, J. [5 ,6 ]
De Roeck, A. [12 ,46 ]
De Wolf, E. A. [5 ,6 ]
Diaconu, C. [22 ]
机构
[1] NIPNE, Bucharest, Romania
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[3] Vinca Inst Nucl Sci, Belgrade, Serbia
[4] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[5] ULB VUB, Interuniv Inst High Energies, Brussels, Belgium
[6] Univ Antwerp, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium
[7] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[8] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[9] TU Dortmund, Inst Phys, Dortmund, Germany
[10] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[11] CE Saclay, CEA, DSM Irfu, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[12] DESY, D-2000 Hamburg, Germany
[13] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt Phys, Hamburg, Germany
[14] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[15] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany
[16] Heidelberg Univ, Kirchhoff Inst Phys, Heidelberg, Germany
[17] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Expt Phys, Kosice 04353, Slovakia
[18] Univ Lancaster, Dept Phys, Lancaster, England
[19] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
[20] Queen Mary Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[21] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, Lund, Sweden
[22] Univ Mediterranee, CNRS, IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
[23] CINVESTAV, Dept Fis Aplicada, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
[24] CINVESTAV, Dept Fis, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[25] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[26] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow 117924, Russia
[27] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[28] Univ Paris Sud, LAL, CNRS, IN2P3, Orsay, France
[29] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, LLR, IN2P3, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[30] Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, CNRS, IN2P3, Paris, France
[31] Univ Montenegro, Fac Sci, Podgorica, Montenegro
[32] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[33] Charles Univ Prague, Fac Math & Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[34] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Fis, Rome, Italy
[35] Bulgarian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res & Nucl Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria
[36] Mongolian Acad Sci, Inst Phys & Technol, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
[37] Paul Scherrer Inst, Villigen, Switzerland
[38] Univ Wuppertal, Fachbereich C, Wuppertal, Germany
[39] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
[40] DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
[41] ETH, Inst Teilchenphys, Zurich, Switzerland
[42] Univ Zurich, Inst Phys, Zurich, Switzerland
[43] Univ Bucharest, Fac Phys, Bucharest, Romania
[44] Comenius Univ, Bratislava, Slovakia
[45] Univ Wuppertal, Rechenzentrum, Wuppertal, Germany
[46] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[47] Safarik Univ, Kosice, Slovakia
[48] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Dept Phys, GR-15773 Athens, Greece
[49] Univ Paris 07, CNRS, LPNHE, IN2P3, Paris, France
[50] INFN Roma 3, Rome, Italy
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2009年 / 59卷 / 03期
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
EP SCATTERING; INCLUSIVE PRODUCTION; QCD COHERENCE; HEAVY QUARKS; PHOTOPRODUCTION; DISTRIBUTIONS; ANNIHILATION; GENERATOR; MODEL; CALORIMETER;
D O I
10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0792-2
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
The process of charm quark fragmentation is studied using D (* +/-) meson production in deep-inelastic scattering as measured by the H1 detector at HERA. The parameters of fragmentation functions are extracted for QCD models based on leading order matrix elements and DGLAP or CCFM evolution of partons together with string fragmentation and particle decays. Additionally, they are determined for a next-to-leading order QCD calculation in the fixed flavour number scheme using the independent fragmentation of charm quarks to D (* +/-) mesons. Two different regions of phase space are investigated defined by the presence or absence of a jet containing the D (* +/-) meson in the event. The fragmentation parameters extracted for the two phase space regions are found to be different.
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