Measurement of D+ and Λc+ production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

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作者
Abramowicz, H. [48 ,63 ]
Abt, I. [36 ]
Adamczyk, L. [14 ]
Adamus, M. [59 ]
Aggarwal, R. [7 ]
Antonelli, S. [3 ,4 ]
Antonioli, P. [3 ]
Antonov, A. [34 ]
Arneodo, M. [53 ,54 ,55 ]
Aushev, V. [27 ,28 ]
Aushev, Y. [27 ,28 ]
Bachynska, O. [16 ]
Bamberger, A. [20 ]
Barakbaev, A. N. [26 ]
Barbagli, G. [18 ]
Bari, G. [3 ]
Barreiro, F. [31 ]
Bartsch, D. [5 ]
Basile, M. [3 ,4 ]
Behnke, O. [16 ]
Behr, J. [16 ]
Behrens, U. [16 ]
Bellagamba, L. [3 ]
Bertolin, A. [41 ]
Bhadra, S. [62 ]
Bindi, M. [3 ,4 ]
Blohm, C. [16 ]
Bold, T. [14 ]
Boos, E. G. [26 ]
Borodin, M. [27 ,28 ]
Borras, K. [16 ]
Boscherini, D. [3 ]
Bot, D. [16 ]
Boutle, S. K. [57 ]
Brock, I. [5 ]
Brownson, E. [61 ]
Brugnera, R. [41 ,42 ]
Bruemmer, N. [39 ]
Bruni, A. [3 ]
Bruni, G. [3 ]
Brzozowska, B. [58 ]
Bussey, P. J. [21 ]
Butterworth, J. M. [57 ]
Bylsma, B. [39 ]
Caldwell, A. [36 ]
Capua, M. [8 ,9 ]
Carlin, R. [41 ,42 ]
Catterall, C. D. [62 ]
Chekanov, S. [1 ]
Chwastowski, J. [13 ,65 ]
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 BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[7] Panjab Univ, Dept Phys, Chandigarh 160014, India
[8] Univ Calabria, Dept Phys, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy
[9] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Cosenza, Italy
[10] Chonnam Natl Univ, Inst Universe & Elementary Particles, Kwangju, South Korea
[11] Univ Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
[12] Columbia Univ, Nevis Labs, New York, 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] Jagellonian 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, Fac Phys, Freiburg, Germany
[21] Univ Glasgow, Dept Phys & Astron, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
[22] Univ Aegean, Dept Engn Management & Finance, Chios, 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 Org, Inst Particle & Nucl Studies, KEK, 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-1348 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, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[37] NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[38] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[39] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[40] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford, England
[41] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy
[42] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis, Padua, Italy
[43] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[44] Polytech Univ, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[45] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Rome, Italy
[46] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[47] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[48] Tel Aviv Univ, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Fac Exact Sci, Sch Phys, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[49] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 152, Japan
[50] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
关键词
Lepton-Nucleon Scattering; CROSS-SECTIONS; D-ASTERISK; O(ALPHA-S) CORRECTIONS; CHARM FRAGMENTATION; BEAUTY PRODUCTION; ZEUS; PHOTOPRODUCTION; CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN; IDENTIFICATION;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP11(2010)009
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
Charm production in deep inelastic scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb(-1). The hadronic decay channels D+ -> K-S(0)pi(+), Lambda(+)(c) -> pK(S)(0) and Lambda(+)(c) -> Lambda pi(+), and their charge conjugates, were reconstructed. The presence of a neutral strange hadron in the final state reduces the combinatorial background and extends the measured sensitivity into the low transverse momentum region. The kinematic range is 0 < p(T) ( D+, Lambda(+)(c)) < 10GeV, vertical bar eta( D+,Lambda(+)(c))vertical bar < 1.6, 1.5 < Q(2) < 1000GeV(2) and 0.02 < y < 0.7. Inclusive and differential cross sections for the production of D+ mesons are compared to next-to-leading-order QCD predictions. The fraction of c quarks hadronising into Lambda(+)(c) baryons is extracted.
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