Measurement of beauty production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA using decays into electrons

被引:17
作者
Abramowicz, H. [49 ,68 ]
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 ,55 ]
Aushev, V. [27 ,28 ]
Aushev, Y. [28 ]
Bachynska, O. [16 ]
Bamberger, A. [20 ]
Barakbaev, A. N. [26 ]
Barbagli, G. [18 ]
Bari, G. [3 ]
Barreiro, F. [31 ]
Bartosik, N. [28 ]
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 ]
Bokhonov, V. [27 ]
Bold, T. [14 ]
Bolilyi, O. [28 ]
Boos, E. G. [26 ]
Borras, K. [16 ]
Boscherini, D. [3 ]
Bot, D. [16 ]
Boutle, S. K. [57 ]
Brock, I. [5 ]
Brownson, E. [61 ]
Brugnera, R. [42 ,43 ]
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. [42 ,43 ]
Catterall, C. D. [62 ]
机构
[1] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[2] Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
[3] INFN Bologna, 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] Univ Calabria, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-87036 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, 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] INFN Florence, Florence, Italy
[19] Univ Florence, Florence, Italy
[20] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany
[21] Univ Glasgow, Sch Phys & Astron, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
[22] Univ Aegean, Dept Engn Management & Finance, Chios, Greece
[23] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt 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] Natl Taras Shevchenko Univ Kyiv, Dept Nucl Phys, 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] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[38] NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[39] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[40] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford, England
[41] INFN Padova, Padua, Italy
[42] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy
[43] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis, Padua, Italy
[44] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[45] Polytech Univ, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[46] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Rome, Italy
[47] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[48] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[49] Tel Aviv Univ, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Fac Exact Sci, Sch Phys, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[50] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 152, Japan
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2011年 / 71卷 / 02期
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 以色列科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
PHYSICS EVENT GENERATION; H1 VERTEX DETECTOR; CROSS-SECTIONS; O(ALPHA-S) CORRECTIONS; PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS; QCD CORRECTIONS; ZEUS; PHOTOPRODUCTION; DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION;
D O I
10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1573-x
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 production of beauty quarks in ep interactions has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA for exchanged four-momentum squared Q(2) > 10 GeV2, using an integrated luminosity of 363 pb(-1). The beauty events were identified using electrons from semileptonic b decays with a transverse momentum 0.9 < p(T)(e) < 8 GeV and pseudorapidity vertical bar eta(e)vertical bar < 1.5. Cross sections for beauty production were measured and compared with next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. The beauty contribution to the proton structure function F-2 was extracted from the double-differential cross section as a function of Bjorken-x and Q(2).
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