Inclusive D*+- Meson Cross Sections and D*+- Jet Correlations in Photoproduction at HERA

Collaboration
Aug, 2006
29 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 50 (2007) 251-267
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DESY-06-110
Experiments:

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Abstract: (arXiv)
Differential photoproduction cross sections are measured for events containing D* mesons. The data were taken with the H1 detector at the ep collider HERA and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 51.1 pb-1. The kinematic region covers small photon virtualities Q^2 < 0.01 GeV^2 and photon-proton centre-of-mass energies of 171 < W_gammap < 256 GeV. The details of the heavy quark production process are further investigated in events with one or two jets in addition to the D* meson. Differential cross sections for D* jet production are determined and the correlations between the D* meson and the jet(s) are studied. The results are compared with perturbative QCD predictions applying collinear- or kt -factorisation.
Note:
  • 29 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables, submitted to EPJ
  • positron p: colliding beams
  • positron p: inclusive reaction
  • D*(2010): photoproduction
  • D*(2010): hadronic decay
  • jet: associated production
  • jet: pair production
  • differential cross section: transverse momentum
  • x-dependence
  • rapidity dependence
  • angular correlation: (D*(2010) jet)