Charm production at low Q2 with the ZEUS detector

The production of D*(2010) mesons in deep inelastic scattering at low Q(2) has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 81.9 pb(-1). The D* mesons have been reconstructed from their decay into D-0 and pi(s) with the decay D-0 -> K-pi(+) and corresponding antiparticle decay. Differential D* cross sections as functions of exchanged photon virtuality, Q(2), inelasticity, y, transverse momentum of the D* meson, p(T)(D*), and pseudorapidity of the D* meson, eta(D*), have been measured, using the beam-pipe calorimeter of ZEUS. The kinematic region of the measurement is 0.05 < Q(2) < 0.7 GeV2, 0.02 < y < 0.85, 1.5 < p(T)(D*) < 9.0 GeV and vertical bar eta(D*)vertical bar < 1.5. The measured differential cross sections are compared with the predictions of next-to-leading-orderQCD.