Measurement of beauty production at HERA using events with muons and jets

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Aktas, A
Andreev, V
Anthonis, T
Aplin, S
Asmone, A
Babaev, A
Backovic, S
Bähr, J
Baghdasaryan, A
Baranov, P
Barrelet, E
Bartel, W
Baudrand, S
Baumgartner, S
Becker, J
Beckingham, M
Behnke, O
Behrendt, O
Belousov, A
Berger, C
Berger, N
Bizot, JC
Boenig, MO
Boudry, V
Bracinik, J
Brandt, G
Brisson, V
Brown, DP
Bruncko, D
Büsser, FW
Bunyatyan, A
Buschhorn, G
Bystritskaya, L
Campbell, AJ
Caron, S
Cassol-Brunnner, F
Cerny, K
Cerny, V
Chekelian, V
Contreras, JG
Coughlan, JA
Cox, BE
Cozzika, G
Cvach, J
Dainton, JB
Dau, WD
Daum, K
de Boer, Y
Delcourt, B
Demirchyan, R
机构
[1] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[3] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[4] ULB VUB, Inter Univ Inst High Energies, Brussels, Belgium
[5] Univ Antwerp, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium
[6] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[7] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[8] Univ Dortmund, Inst Phys, D-4600 Dortmund, Germany
[9] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[10] CEA, CE Saclay, DSM, DAPNIA, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[11] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt Phys, Hamburg, Germany
[12] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[13] Univ Heidelberg, Inst Phys, D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany
[14] Univ Heidelberg, Kirchhoff Inst Phys, Heidelberg, Germany
[15] Univ Kiel, Inst Expt & Angeeandte Phys, Kiel, Germany
[16] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Expt Phys, Kosice 04353, Slovakia
[17] Univ Lancaster, Dept Phys, Lancaster, England
[18] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
[19] Univ London Queen Mary & Westfield Coll, London E1 4NS, England
[20] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, Lund, Sweden
[21] Univ Manchester, Dept Phys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[22] Univ Mediterranee, CNRS, CPPM, IN2P3, Marseille, France
[23] CINVESTAV, Dept Fis Aplicada, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
[24] CINVESTAV, Dept Fis, Merida, Yucatan, 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 11, LAL, IN2P3, CNRS, Orsay, France
[29] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, LLR, IN2P3, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[30] Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, IN2P3, CNRS, Paris, France
[31] Univ Paris 07, LPNHE, IN2P3, CNRS, Paris, France
[32] Univ Montenegro, Fac Sci, Podgorica, Serbia Monteneg
[33] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[34] Charles Univ, Fac Math & Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[35] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Fis, Rome, Italy
[36] INFN Roma 3, Rome, Italy
[37] Inst Nucl Energy Res, Sofia, Bulgaria
[38] Paul Scherrer Inst, Villigen, Switzerland
[39] Univ Wuppertal, Fachbereich C, Wuppertal, Germany
[40] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
[41] DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
[42] ETH, Inst Teilchenphys, Zurich, Switzerland
[43] Univ Zurich, Inst Phys, Zurich, Switzerland
[44] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Dept Phys, GR-15773 Zografos, Greece
[45] Univ Wuppertal, Rechenzentrum, Wuppertal, Germany
[46] Safarik Univ, Kosice, Slovakia
[47] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[48] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2005年 / 41卷 / 04期
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10.1140/epjc/s2005-02267-0
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
A measurement of the beauty production cross section in ep collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 319 GeV is presented. The data were collected with the H1 detector at the HERA collider in the years 1999-2000. Events are selected by requiring the presence of jets and muons in the final state. Both the long lifetime and the large mass of b-flavoured hadrons are exploited to identify events containing beauty quarks. Differential cross sections are measured in photoproduction, with photon virtualities Q(2) < 1 GeV2, and in deep inelastic scattering, where 2 < Q(2) < 100 GeV2. The results are compared with perturbative QCD calculations to leading and next-to-leading order. The predictions are found to be somewhat lower than the data.
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