Measurement of charm and beauty photoproduction at HERA using D*mu correlations

Summary, in English

A measurement of charm and beauty photoproduction at the electron proton collider HERA is presented based on the simultaneous detection of a D*(+/-) meson and a muon. The correlation between the D* meson and the muon serves to separate the charm and beauty contributions and the analysis provides comparable sensitivity to both. The total and differential experimental cross sections are compared to LO and NLO QCD calculations. The measured charm cross section is in good agreement with QCD predictions including higher order effects while the beauty cross section is higher.

• Author: A Aktas; V Andreev; T Anthonis; S Aplin; A Asmone; A Astvatsatourov; A Babaev; S Backovic; J Bahr; A Baghdasaryan; P Baranov; E Barrelet; W Bartel; S Baudrand; S Baumgartner; J Becker; M Beckingham; O Behnke; O Behrendt; A Belousov; C Berger; N Berger; JC Bizot; MO Boenig; V Boudry; J Bracinik; G Brandt; V Brisson; DP Brown; D Bruncko; FW Busser; A Bunyatyan; G Buschhorn; L Bystritskaya; AJ Campbell; S Caron; F Cassol-Brunner; K Cerny; V Cerny; V Chekelian; JG Contreras; JA Coughlan; BE Cox; G Cozzika; J Cvach; JB Dainton; WD Dau; K Daum; B Delcourt; R Demirchyan; A De Roeck; K Desch; EA De Wolf; C Diaconu; V Dodonov; A Dubak; G Eckerlin; V Efremenko; S Egli; R Eichler; F Eisele; M Ellerbrock; E Elsen; W Erdmann; S Essenov; A Falkewicz; PJW Faulkner; L Favart; A Fedotov; R Felst; J Ferencei; L Finke; M Fleischer; P Fleischmann; YH Fleming; G Flucke; A Fomenko; I Foresti; J Formanek; G Franke; G Frising; T Frisson; E Gabathuler; E Garutti; J Gayler; R Gerhards; C Gerlich; S Ghazaryan; S Ginzburgskaya; A Glazov; I Glushkov; L Goerlich; M Goettlich; N Gogitidze; S Gorbounov; C Goyon; C Grab; T Greenshaw; M Gregori; G Grindhammer; C Gwilliam; D Haidt; L Hajduk; J Haller; Magnus Hansson; G Heinzelmann; RCW Henderson; H Henschel; O Henshaw; G Herrera; M Hildebrandt; KH Hiller; D Hoffmann; R Horisberger; A Hovhannisyan; M Ibbotson; M Ismail; M Jacquet; L Janauschek; X Janssen; V Jemanov; Leif Jönsson; DP Johnson; Hannes Jung; M Kapichine; Martin Karlsson; J Katzy; N Keller; IR Kenyon; C Kiesling; M Klein; C Kleinwort; T Klimkovich; T Kluge; G Knies; Albert Knutsson; V Korbel; P Kostka; R Koutouev; K Krastev; J Kretzschmar; A Kropivnitskaya; K Kruger; J Kuckens; MPJ Landon; W Lange; T Lastovicka; P Laycock; A Lebedev; B Leissner; V Lendermann; S Levonian; L Lindfeld; K Lipka; B List; E Lobodzinska; N Loktionova; R Lopez-Fernandez; V Lubimov; AI Lucaci-Timoce; H Lueders; D Luke; T Lux; L Lytkin; A Makankine; N Malden; E Malinovski; S Mangano; P Marage; R Marshall; M Martisikova; HU Martyn; SJ Maxfield; D Meer; A Mehta; K Meier; AB Meyer; H Meyer; J Meyer; S Mikocki; I Milcewicz-Mika; D Milstead; A Mohamed; R Moreau; A Morozov; JV Morris; MU Mozer; K Muller; P Murin; K Nankov; B Naroska; J Naumann; T Naumann; PR Newman; C Niebuhr; A Nikiforov; D Nikitin; G Nowak; M Nozicka; R Oganezov; B Olivier; JE Olsson; Sakar Osman; D Ozerov; V Palichik; T Papadopoulou; C Pascaud; GD Patel; M Peez; E Perez; D Perez-Astudillo; A Perieanu; A Petrukhin; D Pitzl; R Placakyte; B Portheault; B Povh; P Prideaux; N Raicevic; P Reimer; A Rimmer; C Risler; E Rizvi; P Robmann; B Roland; R Roosen; A Rostovtsev; Z Rurikova; S Rusakov; F Salvaire; DPC Sankey; E Sauvan; S Schatzel; FP Schilling; S Schmidt; S Schmitt; C Schmitz; L Schoeffel; A Schoning; V Schroder; HC Schultz-Coulon; C Schwanenberger; K Sedlak; F Sefkow; I Sheviakov; LN Shtarkov; Y Sirois; T Sloan; P Smirnov; Y Soloviev; D South; V Spaskov; A Specka; B Stella; J Stiewe; I Strauch; U Straumann; V Tchoulakov; G Thompson; PD Thompson; F Tomasz; D Traynor; P Truol; I Tsakov; G Tsipolitis; I Tsurin; J Turnau; E Tzamariudaki; M Urban; A Usik; D Utkin; S Valkar; A Valkarova; C Vallee; P Van Mechelen; N Van Remortel; AV Trevino; Y Vazdik; C Veelken; A Vest; S Vinokurova; V Volchinski; B Vujicic; K Wacker; J Wagner; G Weber; R Weber; D Wegener; C Werner; N Werner; M Wessels; B Wessling; C Wigmore; GG Winter; C Wissing; R Wolf; E Wunsch; S Xella; W Yan; V Yeganov; J Zacek; J Zalesak; Z Zhang; A Zhelezov; A Zhokin; J Zimmermann; H Zohrabyan; F Zomer
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2005
• Language: English
• Pages: 56-71
• Publication/Series: Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
• Volume: 621
• Issue: 1-2
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2005.06.040
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0370-2693