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Diffractive open charm production in deep-inelastic scattering and photoproduction at HERA

  • A. Aktas*
  • , V. Andreev
  • , T. Anthonis
  • , B. Antunovic
  • , S. Aplin
  • , A. Asmone
  • , A. Astvatsatourov
  • , A. Babaev
  • , S. Backovic
  • , A. Baghdasaryan
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , S. Baudrand
  • , M. Beckingham
  • , K. Begzsuren
  • , O. Behnke
  • , O. Behrendt
  • , A. Belousov
  • , N. Berger
  • J. C. Bizot, M. O. Boenig, V. Boudry, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, J. Bracinik, G. Brandt, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, D. Bruncko, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, K. B. Cantun Avila, F. Cassol-Brunner, K. Cerny, V. Cerny, V. Chekelian, J. G. Contreras, J. A. Coughlan, B. E. Cox, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, K. Daum, Y. De Boer, B. Delcourt, M. Del Degan, A. De Roeck, E. A. De Wolf, C. Diaconu, V. Dodonov, A. Dubak, G. Eckerlin, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, A. Eliseev, E. Elsen, S. Essenov, A. Falkewicz, P. J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Feltesse, J. Ferencei, L. Finke, M. Fleischer, G. Flucke, A. Fomenko, G. Franke, T. Frisson, E. Gabathuler, E. Garutti, J. Gayler, S. Ghazaryan, S. Ginzburgskaya, A. Glazov, I. Glushkov, L. Goerlich, M. Goettlich, N. Gogitidze, S. Gorbounov, M. Gouzevitch, C. Grab, T. Greenshaw, M. Gregori, B. R. Grell, G. Grindhammer, C. Gwilliam, S. Habib, D. Haidt, M. Hansson, G. Heinzelmann, C. Helebrant, R. C.W. Henderson, H. Henschel, G. Herrera, M. Hildebrandt, K. H. Hiller, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, A. Hovhannisyan, T. Hreus, S. Hussain, M. Ibbotson, M. Jacquet, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, A. W. Jung, H. Jung, M. Kapichine, J. Katzy, I. R. Kenyon, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, T. Klimkovich, T. Kluge, G. Knies, A. Knutsson, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, M. Kraemer, K. Krastev, J. Kretzschmar, A. Kropivnitskaya, K. Krüger, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, G. Laštovička-Medin, P. Laycock, A. Lebedev, G. Leibenguth, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, L. Lindfeld, K. Lipka, A. Liptaj, B. List, J. List, N. Loktionova, R. Lopez-Fernandez, V. Lubimov, A. I. Lucaci-Timoce, H. Lueders, L. Lytkin, A. Makankine, E. Malinovski, P. Marage, R. Marshall, L. Marti, M. Martisikova, H. U. Martyn, S. J. Maxfield, A. Mehta, K. Meier, A. B. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, V. Michels, S. Mikocki, I. Milcewicz-Mika, D. Mladenov, A. Mohamed, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, J. V. Morris, M. U. Mozer, K. Müller, P. Murín, K. Nankov, B. Naroska, T. Naumann, P. R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, A. Nikiforov, G. Nowak, K. Nowak, M. Nozicka, R. Oganezov, B. Olivier, J. E. Olsson, S. Osman, D. Ozerov, V. Palichik, I. Panagoulias, M. Pandurovic, T. Papadopoulou, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, H. Peng, E. Perez, D. Perez-Astudillo, A. Perieanu, A. Petrukhin, I. Picuric, S. Piec, D. Pitzl, R. Plačakyte, B. Povh, P. Prideaux, A. J. Rahmat, N. Raicevic, P. Reimer, A. Rimmer, C. Risler, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, B. Roland, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, Z. Rurikova, S. Rusakov, F. Salvaire, D. P.C. Sankey, M. Sauter, E. Sauvan, S. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, C. Schmitz, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, F. Sefkow, R. N. Shaw-West, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, T. Sloan, I. Smiljanic, P. Smirnov, Y. Soloviev, D. South, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, M. Steder, B. Stella, J. Stiewe, A. Stoilov, U. Straumann, D. Sunar, T. Sykora, V. Tchoulakov, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, T. Toll, F. Tomasz, D. Traynor, T. N. Trinh, P. Truöl, I. Tsakov, G. Tsipolitis, I. Tsurin, J. Turnau, E. Tzamariudaki, K. Urban, M. Urban, A. Usik, D. Utkin, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. Van Mechelen, A. Vargas Trevino, Y. Vazdik, S. Vinokurova, V. Volchinski, K. Wacker, G. Weber, R. Weber, D. Wegener, C. Werner, M. Wessels, C. Wissing, R. Wolf, E. Wünsch, S. Xella, W. Yan, V. Yeganov, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokin, Y. C. Zhu, J. Zimmermann, T. Zimmermann, H. Zohrabyan, F. Zomer
*Corresponding author for this work
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • Inter-University Institute for High Energies
  • University of Antwerp
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Roma Tre University
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • University of Montenegro
  • A. Alikhanian Yerevan Institute of Physics
  • Universités Paris VI
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Mongolian Academy of Sciences
  • Heidelberg University 
  • TU Dortmund University
  • ETH Zurich—Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA)
  • IN2P3-CNRS
  • University of Belgrade
  • Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • University of Hamburg
  • Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
  • CNRS/IN2P3-Université Mediterranee
  • Charles University
  • Comenius University
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Manchester
  • CEA Saclay
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Wuppertal
  • CERN
  • Paul Scherrer Institute
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Birmingham
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Lund University
  • Lancaster University
  • Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Zurich
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

Measurements are presented of diffractive open charm production at HERA. The event topology is given by ep→eXY where the system X contains at least one charmed hadron and is well separated by a large rapidity gap from a leading low-mass proton remnant system Y. Two analysis techniques are used for the cross section measurements. In the first, the charm quark is tagged by the reconstruction of a D* meson. This technique is used in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) and photoproduction (γp). In the second, a method based on the displacement of tracks from the primary vertex is used to measure the open charm contribution to the inclusive diffractive cross section in DIS. The measurements are compared with next-to-leading order QCD predictions based on diffractive parton density functions previously obtained from a QCD analysis of the inclusive diffractive cross section at H1. A good agreement is observed in the full kinematic regime, which supports the validity of QCD factorization for open charm production in diffractive DIS and γp.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-20
Number of pages20
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume50
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2007
Externally publishedYes

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