Measurement of the Charm structure Function $F_{2}^{\gamma},c$ of the Photon at LEP

The production of charm quarks is studied in deep-inelastic electron-photon scattering using data recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at normal e+e- centre-of-mass energies from 183 to 209 GeV. The charm quarks have been identified by full reconstruction of charged D* mesons using their decays into...

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Autores principales: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Busser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Cohen, I., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., Von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisian, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2002
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01999-8
http://cds.cern.ch/record/551899
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Sumario:The production of charm quarks is studied in deep-inelastic electron-photon scattering using data recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at normal e+e- centre-of-mass energies from 183 to 209 GeV. The charm quarks have been identified by full reconstruction of charged D* mesons using their decays into D0pi with the D0 observed in two decay modes with charged particle final states, Kpi and K3pi. The cross-section sigma(D*) for production of charged D* in the reaction e+e- -> e+e-D*X is measured in a restricted kinematical region using two bins in Bjorken x, 0.0014 < x < 0.1 and 0.1 < x < 0.87. From sigma(D*) the charm production cross-section sigma(e+e- -> e+e- ccbar X) and the charm structure function of the photon F 2,c are determined in the region 0.0014 < x < 0.87 and 5 < Q2 < 100 GeV2. For x > 0.1 the perturbative QCD calculation at next-to-leading order agrees perfectly with the measured cross-section. For x < 0.1 the measured cross-section is 43.8 +- 14.3 +- 6.3 +- 2.8 pb with a next-to-leading order prediction of 17.0+2.9-2.3 p.b.

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