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Measurement of beauty production at HERA using events with muons and jets

  • A. Aktas*
  • , V. Andreev
  • , T. Anthonis
  • , S. Aplin
  • , A. Asmone
  • , A. Babaev
  • , S. Backovic
  • , J. Bähr
  • , A. Baghdasaryan
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , S. Baudrand
  • , S. Baumgartner
  • , J. Becker
  • , M. Beckingham
  • , O. Behnke
  • , O. Behrendt
  • , A. Belousov
  • , C. Berger
  • N. Berger, J. C. Bizot, M. O. Boenig, V. Boudry, J. Bracinik, G. Brandt, V. Brisson, D. P. Brown, D. Bruncko, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, S. Caron, 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, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, Y. de Boer, B. Delcourt, R. Demirchyan, A. de Roeck, K. Desch, E. A. de Wolf, C. Diaconu, V. Dodonov, A. Dubak, G. Eckerlin, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, M. Ellerbrock, E. Elsen, W. Erdmann, S. Essenov, P. J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Ferencei, L. Finke, M. Fleischer, P. Fleischmann, Y. H. Fleming, G. Flucke, A. Fomenko, I. Foresti, J. Formánek, G. Franke, G. Frising, T. Frisson, E. Gabathuler, E. Garutti, J. Gayler, R. Gerhards, C. Gerlich, S. Ghazaryan, S. Ginzburgskaya, A. Glazov, I. Glushkov, L. Goerlich, M. Goettlich, N. Gogitidze, S. Gorbounov, C. Goyon, C. Grab, T. Greenshaw, M. Gregori, G. Grindhammer, C. Gwilliam, D. Haidt, L. Hajduk, J. Haller, M. Hansson, G. Heinzelmann, R. C.W. Henderson, H. Henschel, O. Henshaw, G. Herrera, I. Herynek, M. Hildebrandt, K. H. Hiller, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, A. Hovhannisyan, M. Ibbotson, M. Ismail, M. Jacquet, L. Janauschek, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, H. Jung, M. Kapichine, M. Karlsson, J. Katzy, N. Keller, I. R. Kenyon, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, T. Klimkovich, T. Kluge, G. Knies, A. Knutsson, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, R. Koutouev, K. Krastev, J. Kretzschmar, A. Kropivnitskaya, J. Kroseberg, K. Krüger, J. Kückens, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, T. Laštovička, P. Laycock, A. Lebedev, B. Leißner, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, L. Lindfeld, K. Lipka, B. List, E. Lobodzinska, N. Loktionova, R. Lopez-Fernandez, V. Lubimov, A. I. Lucaci-Timoce, H. Lueders, D. Lüke, T. Lux, L. Lytkin, A. Makankine, N. Malden, E. Malinovski, S. Mangano, P. Marage, R. Marshall, M. Martisikova, H. U. Martyn, S. J. Maxfield, D. Meer, A. Mehta, K. Meier, A. B. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, S. Mikocki, I. Milcewicz-Mika, D. Milstead, A. Mohamed, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, J. V. Morris, M. U. Mozer, K. Müller, P. Murín, K. Nankov, B. Naroska, J. Naumann, T. Naumann, P. R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, A. Nikiforov, D. Nikitin, G. Nowak, M. Nozicka, R. Oganezov, B. Olivier, J. E. Olsson, S. Osman, D. Ozerov, V. Palichik, T. Papadopoulou, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, M. Peez, E. Perez, D. Perez-Astudillo, A. Perieanu, A. Petrukhin, D. Pitzl, R. Plačakyte, B. Portheault, B. Povh, P. Prideaux, 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, E. Sauvan, S. Schätzel, F. P. Schilling, S. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, C. Schmitz, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, V. Schröder, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, C. Schwanenberger, K. Sedlák, F. Sefkow, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, Y. Sirois, T. Sloan, P. Smirnov, Y. Soloviev, D. South, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, B. Stella, J. Stiewe, I. Strauch, U. Straumann, V. Tchoulakov, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, F. Tomasz, D. Traynor, P. Truöl, I. Tsakov, G. Tsipolitis, I. Tsurin, J. Turnau, E. Tzamariudaki, M. Urban, A. Usik, D. Utkin, S. Valkár, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Mechelen, N. van Remortel, A. Vargas Trevino, Y. Vazdik, C. Veelken, A. Vest, S. Vinokurova, V. Volchinski, B. Vujicic, K. Wacker, J. Wagner, G. Weber, R. Weber, D. Wegener, C. Werner, N. Werner, M. Wessels, B. Wessling, C. Wigmore, G. G. Winter, C. Wissing, R. Wolf, E. Wünsch, S. Xella, W. Yan, V. Yeganov, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokin, J. 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
  • 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
  • ETH Zurich—Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA)
  • University of Zurich
  • Heidelberg University 
  • TU Dortmund University
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • IN2P3-CNRS
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • University of Hamburg
  • Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • CNRS/IN2P3-Université Mediterranee
  • Charles University
  • Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Manchester
  • CEA Saclay
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Liverpool
  • Kiel University
  • University of Wuppertal
  • CERN
  • Paul Scherrer Institute
  • University of Birmingham
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Lund University
  • Lancaster University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

A measurement of the beauty production cross section in ep collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 319 GeV is presented. The data were collected with the H1 detector at the HERA collider in the years 1999-2000. Events are selected by requiring the presence of jets and muons in the final state. Both the long lifetime and the large mass of b-flavoured hadrons are exploited to identify events containing beauty quarks. Differential cross sections are measured in photoproduction, with photon virtualities Q2 < 1 GeV2, and in deep inelastic scattering, where 2 < Q2 < 100 GeV 2. The results are compared with perturbative QCD calculations to leading and next-to-leading order. The predictions are found to be somewhat lower than the data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)453-467
Number of pages15
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume41
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2005
Externally publishedYes

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