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Measurement of open beauty production at HERA in the D *μ final state

  • S. Chekanov*
  • , M. Derrick
  • , S. Magill
  • , S. Miglioranzi
  • , B. Musgrave
  • , D. Nicholass
  • , J. Repond
  • , R. Yoshida
  • , M. C.K. Mattingly
  • , N. Pavel
  • , A. G. Yagües Molina
  • , S. Antonelli
  • , P. Antonioli
  • , G. Bari
  • , M. Basile
  • , L. Bellagamba
  • , M. Bindi
  • , D. Boscherini
  • , A. Bruni
  • , G. Bruni
  • L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, A. Contin, M. Corradi, S. De Pasquale, G. Iacobucci, A. Margotti, R. Nania, A. Polini, L. Rinaldi, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi, G. Aghuzumtsyan, D. Bartsch, I. Brock, S. Goers, H. Hartmann, E. Hilger, H. P. Jakob, M. Jüngst, O. M. Kind, E. Paul, J. Rautenberg, R. Renner, U. Samson, V. Schönberg, M. Wang, M. Wlasenko, N. H. Brook, G. P. Heath, J. D. Morris, T. Namsoo, M. Capua, S. Fazio, A. Mastroberardino, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, E. Tassi, J. Y. Kim, K. J. Ma, Z. A. Ibrahim, B. Kamaluddin, W. A.T. Wan Abdullah, Y. Ning, Z. Ren, F. Sciulli, J. Chwastowski, A. Eskreys, J. Figiel, A. Galas, M. Gil, K. Olkiewicz, P. Stopa, L. Zawiejski, L. Adamczyk, T. Bołd, I. Grabowska-Bołd, D. Kisielewska, J. Łukasik, M. Przybycień, L. Suszycki, A. Kotański, W. Słomiński, V. Adler, U. Behrens, I. Bloch, A. Bonato, K. Borras, N. Coppola, J. Fourletova, A. Geiser, D. Gladkov, P. Göttlicher, I. Gregor, T. Haas, W. Hain, C. Horn, B. Kahle, U. Kötz, H. Kowalski, E. Lobodzinska, B. Löhr, R. Mankel, I. A. Melzer-Pellmann, A. Montanari, D. Notz, A. E. Nuncio-Quiroz, R. Santamarta, U. Schneekloth, A. Spiridonov, H. Stadie, U. Stösslein, D. Szuba, J. Szuba, T. Theedt, G. Wolf, K. Wrona, C. Youngman, W. Zeuner, S. Schlenstedt, G. Barbagli, E. Gallo, P. G. Pelfer, A. Bamberger, D. Dobur, F. Karstens, N. N. Vlasov, P. J. Bussey, A. T. Doyle, W. Dunne, J. Ferrando, D. H. Saxon, I. O. Skillicorn, I. Gialas, T. Gosau, U. Holm, R. Klanner, E. Lohrmann, H. Salehi, P. Schleper, T. Schörner-Sadenius, J. Sztuk, K. Wichmann, K. Wick, C. Foudas, C. Fry, K. R. Long, A. D. Tapper, M. Kataoka, T. Matsumoto, K. Nagano, K. Tokushuku, S. Yamada, Y. Yamazaki, A. N. Barakbaev, E. G. Boos, A. Dossanov, N. S. Pokrovskiy, B. O. Zhautykov, D. Son, J. De Favereau, K. Piotrzkowski, F. Barreiro, C. Glasman, M. Jimenez, L. Labarga, J. Del Peso, E. Ron, J. Terrón, M. Zambrana, F. Corriveau, C. Liu, R. Walsh, C. Zhou, T. Tsurugai, A. Antonov, B. A. Dolgoshein, I. Rubinsky, V. Sosnovtsev, A. Stifutkin, S. Suchkov, R. K. Dementiev, P. F. Ermolov, L. K. Gladilin, I. I. Katkov, L. A. Khein, I. A. Korzhavina, V. A. Kuzmin, B. B. Levchenko, O. Y. Lukina, A. S. Proskuryakov, L. M. Shcheglova, D. S. Zotkin, S. A. Zotkin, I. Abt, C. Büttner, A. Caldwell, D. Kollar, W. B. Schmidke, J. Sutiak, G. Grigorescu, A. Keramidas, E. Koffeman, P. Kooijman, A. Pellegrino, H. Tiecke, M. Vázquez, L. Wiggers, N. Brümmer, B. Bylsma, L. S. Durkin, A. Lee, T. Y. Ling, P. D. Allfrey, M. A. Bell, A. M. Cooper-Sarkar, A. Cottrell, R. C.E. Devenish, B. Foster, K. Korcsak-Gorzo, S. Patel, V. Roberfroid, A. Robertson, P. B. Straub, C. Uribe-Estrada, R. Walczak, P. Bellan, A. Bertolin, R. Brugnera, R. Carlin, R. Ciesielski, F. Dal Corso, S. Dusini, A. Garfagnini, S. Limentani, A. Longhin, L. Stanco, M. Turcato, B. Y. Oh, A. Raval, J. Ukleja, J. J. Whitmore, Y. Iga, G. D'Agostini, G. Marini, A. Nigro, J. E. Cole, J. C. Hart, H. Abramowicz, A. Gabareen, R. Ingbir, S. Kananov, A. Levy, M. Kuze, R. Hori, S. Kagawa, N. Okazaki, S. Shimizu, T. Tawara, R. Hamatsu, H. Kaji, S. Kitamura, O. Ota, Y. D. Ri, M. I. Ferrero, V. Monaco, R. Sacchi, A. Solano, M. Arneodo, M. Ruspa, S. Fourletov, J. F. Martin, S. K. Boutle, J. M. Butterworth, C. Gwenlan, T. W. Jones, J. H. Loizides, M. R. Sutton, C. Targett-Adams, M. Wing, B. Brzozowska, J. Ciborowski, G. Grzelak, P. Kulinski, P. Łuzniak, J. Malka, R. J. Nowak, J. M. Pawlak, T. Tymieniecka, A. Ukleja, A. F. Zarnecki, M. Adamus, P. Plucinski, Y. Eisenberg, I. Giller, D. Hochman, U. Karshon, M. Rosin, E. Brownson, T. Danielson, A. Everett, D. Kçira, D. D. Reeder, P. Ryan, A. A. Savin, W. H. Smith, H. Wolfe, S. Bhadra, C. D. Catterall, Y. Cui, G. Hartner, S. Menary, U. Noor, M. Soares, J. Standage, J. Whyte
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • University College London
  • Andrews University
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Hamburg
  • University of Bonn
  • University of Wuppertal
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Calabria
  • Chonnam National University
  • University of Malaya
  • Columbia University
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • INP
  • University of Florence
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of the Aegean
  • Imperial College London
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics
  • CERN
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Université catholique de Louvain
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • McGill University
  • Meiji Gakuin University
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Padua
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Polytechnic University Japan
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Institute of Science Tokyo
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • Nagoya University
  • University of Turin
  • University of Eastern Piedmont
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Warsaw
  • University of Lodz
  • Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • York University Toronto

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Abstract

The production of beauty quarks with a D*± and a muon in the final state has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 114 pb-1. Low transverse-momentum thresholds for the muon and D* meson allow for a measurement of beauty production closer to the production threshold than previous measurements. The beauty signal was extracted using the charge correlations and angular distributions of the muon with respect to the D* meson. Cross sections for photoproduction and deep inelastic scattering are somewhat higher than, but compatible with, next-to-leading-order QCD predictions, and compatible with other measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)299-314
Number of pages16
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume50
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2007

Funding

FundersFunder number
UK Research and Innovation53706
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilPP/E000673/1, PP/E000452/1

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