Measurement of D (+/-) and D (0) production in deep inelastic scattering using a lifetime tag at HERA
EUR PHYS J C 63:3 (2009) 171-188
Authors:
S Chekanov, M Derrick, S Magill, B Musgrave, D Nicholass, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, F Cindolo, M Corradi, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, R Nania, A Polini, S Antonelli, M Basile, M Bindi, L Cifarelli, A Contin, S De Pasquale, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, D Bartsch, I Brock, H Hartmann, E Hilger, HP Jakob, M Jungst, AE Nuncio-Quiroz, E Paul, U Samson, V Schonberg, R Shehzadi, M Wlasenko, NH Brook, GP Heath, JD Morris, M Kaur, P Kaur, I Singh, M Capua, S Fazio, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, E Tassi, JY Kim, ZA Ibrahim, F Idris, B Kamaluddin, WATW Abdullah, Y Ning, Z Ren, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, A Galas, K Olkiewicz, B Pawlik, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bold, I Grabowska-Bold, D Kisielewska, J Laukasik, M Przybycien, L Suszycki, A Kotanski, W Sominski, O Behnke, U Behrens, C Blohm, A Bonato, K Borras, D Bot, R Ciesielski, N Coppola, S Fang, J Fourletova, A Geiser, P Gottlicher, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor, T Haas, W Hain, A Huttmann, F Januschek, B Kahle, II Katkov, U Klein, U Kotz, H Kowalski, M Lisovyi, E Lobodzinska, B Lohr, R Mankel, IA Melzer-Pellmann, S Miglioranzi, A Montanari, T Namsoo, D Notz, A Parenti, L Rinaldi, P Roloff, I Rubinsky, U Schneekloth, A Spiridonov, D Szuba, J Szuba, T Theedt, J Ukleja, G Wolf, K Wrona, AGY Molina, C Youngman, W Zeuner, V Drugakov, W Lohmann, S Schlenstedt, G Barbagli, E Gallo, PG Pelfer, A Bamberger, D Dobur, F Karstens, NN Vlasov, PJ Bussey, AT Doyle, W Dunne, M Forrest, M Rosin, DH Saxon, IO Skillicorn, I Gialas, K Papageorgiu, U Holm, R Klanner, E Lohrmann, H Perrey, P Schleper, T Schorner-Sadenius, J Sztuk, H Stadie, M Turcato, C Foudas, C Fry, KR Long, AD Tapper, T Matsumoto, K Nagano, K Tokushuku, S Yamada, Y Yamazaki, AN Barakbaev, EG Boos, NS Pokrovskiy, BO Zhautykov, V Aushev, O Bachynska, M Borodin, I Kadenko, A Kozulia, V Libov, D Lontkovskyi, I Makarenko, I Sorokin, A Verbytskyi, O Volynets, D Son, J de Favereau, K Piotrzkowski, F Barreiro, C Glasman, M Jimenez, L Labarga, J del Peso, E Ron, M Soares, J Terron, C Uribe-Estrada, M Zambrana, F Corriveau, C Liu, J Schwartz, R Walsh, C Zhou, T Tsurugai, A Antonov, BA Dolgoshein, D Gladkov, V Sosnovtsev, A Stifutkin, S Suchkov, RK Dementiev, PF Ermolov, LK Gladilin, YA Golubkov, LA Khein, IA Korzhavina, VA Kuzmin, BB Levchenko, OY Lukina, AS Proskuryakov, LM Shcheglova, DS Zotkin, I Abt, A Caldwell, D Kollar, B Reisert, WB Schmidke, G Grigorescu, A Keramidas, E Koffeman, P Kooijman, A Pellegrino, H Tiecke, M Vazquez, L Wiggers, N Brummer, B Bylsma, LS Durkin, A Lee, TY Ling, PD Allfrey, MA Bell, AM Cooper-Sarkar, RCE Devenish, J Ferrando, B Foster, C Gwenlan, K Horton, K Oliver, A Robertson, R Walczak, A Bertolin, F Dal Corso, S Dusini, A Longhin, L Stanco, P Bellan, R Brugnera, R Carlin, A Garfagnini, S Limentani, BY Oh, A Raval, JJ Whitmore, Y Iga, G D'Agostini, G Marini, A Nigro, JE Cole, JC Hart, H Abramowicz, R Ingbir, S Kananov, A Levy, A Stern, M Kuze, J Maeda, R Hori, S Kagawa, N Okazaki, S Shimizu, T Tawara, R Hamatsu, H Kaji, S Kitamura, O Ota, YD Ri, M Costa, MI Ferrero, V Monaco, R Sacchi, V Sola, A Solano, M Arneodo, M Ruspa, S Fourletov, JF Martin, TP Stewart, SK Boutle, JM Butterworth, R Hall-Wilton, TW Jones, JH Loizides, MR Sutton, M Wing, B Brzozowska, J Ciborowski, G Grzelak, P Kulinski, P Luzniak, J Malka, RJ Nowak, JM Pawlak, W Perlanski, T Tymieniecka, AF Zarnecki, M Adamus, P Plucinski, A Ukleja, Y Eisenberg, D Hochman, U Karshon, E Brownson, DD Reeder, AA Savin, WH Smith, H Wolfe, S Bhadra, CD Catterall, Y Cui, G Hartner, S Menary, U Noor, J Standage, J Whyte, ZEUS Collaboration
Abstract:
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.
