MEASUREMENT OF THE STRANGE SEA DISTRIBUTION USING NEUTRINO CHARM PRODUCTION

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作者
RABINOWITZ, SA
ARROYO, C
BACHMANN, KT
BAZARKO, AO
BOLTON, T
FOUDAS, C
KING, BJ
LEFMANN, WC
LEUNG, WC
MISHRA, SR
OLTMAN, E
QUINTAS, PZ
SCIULLI, FJ
SELIGMAN, WG
SHAEVITZ, MH
MERRITT, FS
OREGLIA, MJ
SCHUMM, BA
BERNSTEIN, RH
BORCHERDING, F
FISK, HE
LAMM, MJ
MARSH, W
MERRITT, KWB
SCHELLMAN, HM
YOVANOVITCH, DD
BODEK, A
BUDD, HS
DEBARBARO, P
SAKUMOTO, WK
KINNEL, T
SANDLER, PH
SMITH, WH
机构
[1] UNIV CHICAGO,CHICAGO,IL 60637
[2] FERMI NATL ACCELERATOR LAB,BATAVIA,IL 60510
[3] UNIV ROCHESTER,ROCHESTER,NY 14627
[4] UNIV WISCONSIN,MADISON,WI 53706
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.134
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
A high-statistics study by the Columbia-Chicago-Fermilab-Rochester Collaboration of opposite-sign dimuon events induced by neutrino-nucleon scattering at the Fermilab Tevatron is presented. A sample of 5044 nu(mu) and 1062 v(mu)BAR induced mu-/+mu+/- events with P(mu1) greater-than-or-equal-to 9 GeV/c, P(mu2) greater-than-or-equal-to 5 GeV/c, 30 less-than-or-equal-to E(nu) less-than-or-equal-to 600 GeV, and [Q2]=22.2 GeV2/c2 is observed. The data support the slow-rescaling model of charm production with a value of m(c)=1.31+/-0.24 GeV/c2. The first measurement of the Q2 dependence of the nucleon strange quark distribution xs(x) is presented. The data yield the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element \V(cd)\=0.209+/-0.012 and the nucleon fractional strangeness content eta(s)=0.064(-0.007)+0.008.
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