Measurement of D-+/- and D-0 production in deep inelastic scattering using a lifetime tag at HERA

S. Chekanov*, M. Derrick, S. Magill, B. Musgrave, D. Nicholass, J. Repond, R. Yoshida, M. C. K. Mattingly, P. Antonioli, G. Bari, L. Bellagamba, D. Boscherini, A. Bruni, G. Bruni, F. Cindolo, M. Corradi, G. Iacobucci, A. Margotti, R. Nania, A. PoliniS. Antonelli, M. Basile, M. Bindi, L. Cifarelli, A. Contin, S. De Pasquale, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi, D. Bartsch, I. Brock, H. Hartmann, E. Hilger, H. -P. Jakob, M. Juengst, A. E. Nuncio-Quiroz, U. Samson, V. Schoenberg, R. Shehzadi, M. Wlasenko, N. H. Brook, G. P. Heath, M. Kaur, P. Kaur, I. Singh, M. Capua, S. Fazio, A. Mastroberardino, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, A. Pellegrino, ZEUS Collaboration

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The production of D-+/-- and D-0-mesons has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 133.6 pb(-1). The measurements cover the kinematic range 5 <Q(2) <1000 GeV2, 0.02 <y <0.7, 1.5 <p(T)(D) <15 GeV and |eta(D)| <1.6. Combinatorial background to the D-meson signals is reduced by using the ZEUS microvertex detector to reconstruct displaced secondary vertices. Production cross sections are compared with the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD, which is found to describe the data well. Measurements are extrapolated to the full kinematic phase space in order to obtain the open-charm contribution, F-2(c (c) over bar), to the proton structure function, F-2.

Originele taal-2English
Pagina's (van-tot)171-188
Aantal pagina's18
TijdschriftThe European Physical Journal C
Volume63
Nummer van het tijdschrift2
DOI's
StatusPublished - sep.-2009
Extern gepubliceerdJa

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