Measurement of inclusive (D-s(+/-)) photoproduction at HERA

Authors
Breitweg, J Chekanov, S Derrick, M Krakauer, D Magill, S Musgrave, B Pellegrino, A Repond, J Stanek, R Yoshida, R Mattingly, MCK Abbiendi, G Anselmo, F Antonioli, P Bari, G Basile, M Bellagamba, L Boscherini, D Bruni, A Bruni, C Romeo, GC Castellini, G Cifarelli, L Cindolo, F Contin, A Coppola, N Corradi, M De Pasquale, S Giusti, P Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, G Margotti, A Massam, T Nania, R Palmonari, F Pesci, A Polini, A Sartorelli, G Garcia, YZ Zichichi, A Amelung, C Bornheim, A Brock, I Coboken, K Crittenden, J Deffner, R Hartmann, H Heinloth, K Hilger, E Irrgang, P Jakob, HP Kappes, A Katz, UF Kerger, R Paul, E Schnurbusch, H Stifutkin, A Tandler, J Voss, KC Weber, A Wieber, H Bailey, DS Barret, O Brook, NH Foster, B Heath, GP Heath, HF McFall, JD Piccioni, D Rodrigues, E Scott, J Tapper, RJ Capua, M Mastroberardino, A Schioppa, M Susinno, G Jeoung, HY Kim, JY Lee, JH Lim, IT Ma, KJ Pac, MY Caldwell, A Liu, W Liu, X Mellado, B Paganis, S Sampson, S Schmidke, WB Sciulli, F Chwastowski, J Eskreys, A Figiel, J Klimek, K Olkiewicz, K Piotrzkowski, K Przybycien, MB Stopa, P Zawiejski, L Bednarek, B Jelen, K Kisielewska, D Kowal, AM Kowalski, T Przybycien, M Rulikowska-Zarebska, E Suszycki, L Szuba, D Kotanski, A Bauerdick, LAT Behrens, U Bienlein, JK Burgard, C Dannheim, D Desler, K Drews, G Fox-Murphy, A Fricke, U Goebel, F Gottlicher, P Graciani, R Haas, T Hain, W Hartner, GF Hasell, D Hebbel, K Johnson, KF Kasemann, M Koch, W Kotz, U Kowalski, H Lindemann, L Lohr, B Martinez, M Milite, M Monteiro, T Moritz, M Notz, D Pelucchi, F Petrucci, MC Rohde, M Saull, PRB Savin, AA Schneekloth, U Selonke, F Sievers, M Stonjek, S Tassi, E Wolf, G Wollmer, U Youngman, C Zeuner, W Coldewey, C Viani, ALD Meyer, A Schlenstedt, S Straub, PB Barbagli, G Gallo, E Pelfer, P Maccarrone, G Votano, L Bamberger, A Benen, A Eisenhardt, S Markun, P Raach, H Wolfle, S Bussey, PJ Doyle, AT Lee, SW Macdonald, N McCance, GJ Saxon, DH Sinclair, LE Skillicorn, IO Waugh, R Bohnet, I Gendner, N Holm, U Meyer-Larsen, A Salehi, H Wick, K Garfagnini, A Gialas, I Gladilin, LK Kcira, D Klanner, R Lohrmann, E Poelz, G Zetsche, F Goncalo, R Long, KR Miller, DB Tapper, AD Walker, R Mallik, U Cloth, P Filges, D Ishii, T Kuze, M Nagano, K Tokushuku, K Yamada, S Yamazaki, Y Ahn, SH Lee, SB Park, SK Lim, H Park, IH Son, D Barreiro, F Garcia, G Glasman, C Gonzalez, O Labarga, L del Peso, J Redondo, I Terron, J Barbi, M Corriveau, F Hanna, DS Ochs, A Padhi, S Riveline, M Stairs, DG Wing, M Tsurugai, T Bashkirov, V Dolgoshein, BA Dementiev, RK Ermolov, PF Golubkov, YA Katkov, II Khein, LA Korotkova, NA Korzhavina, IA Kuzmin, VA Lukina, OY Proskuryakov, AS Shcheglova, LM Solomin, AN Vlasov, NN Zotkin, SA Bokel, C Botje, M Brummer, N Engelen, J Grijpink, S Koffeman, E Kooijman, P Schagen, S van Sighem, A Tiecke, H Tuning, N Velthuis, JJ Vossebeld, J Wiggers, I de Wolf, E Acosta, D Bylsma, B Durkin, LS Gilmore, J Ginsburg, CM Kim, CL Ling, TY Boogert, S Cooper-Sarkar, AM Devenish, RCE Grosse-Knetter, J Matsushita, T Ruske, O Sutton, MR Walczak, R Bertolin, A Brugnera, R Carlin, R Dal Corso, F Dosselli, U Dusini, S Limentani, S Morandin, M Posocco, M Stanco, I Stroili, R Voci, C Adamczyk, L Iannotti, L Oh, BY Okrasinski, JR Toothacker, WS Whitmore, JJ Iga, Y D'Agostini, G Marini, G Nigro, A Cormack, C Hart, JC McCubbin, NA Shah, TP Epperson, D Heusch, C Sadrozinski, HFW Seiden, A Wichmann, R Williams, DC Pavel, N Abramowicz, H Dagan, S Kananov, S Kreisel, A Levy, A Abe, T Fusayasu, T Umemori, K Yamashita, T Hamatsu, R Hirose, T Inuzuka, M Kitamura, S Nishimura, T Arneodo, M Cartiglia, N Cirio, R Costa, M Ferrero, MI Maselli, S Monaco, V Peroni, C Ruspa, M Sacchi, R Solano, A Staiano, A Dardo, M Bailey, DC Fagerstroem, CP Galea, R Koop, T Levman, GM Martin, JF Orr, RS Polenz, S Sabetfakhri, A Simmons, D Butterworth, JM Catterall, CD Hayes, ME Heaphy, EA Jones, TW Lane, JB West, BJ Ciborowski, J Ciesielski, R Grzelak, G Nowak, RJ Pawlak, JM Pawlak, R Smalska, B Tymieniecka, T Wroblewski, AK Zakrzewski, JA Zarnecki, AF Adamus, M Gadaj, T Deppe, O Eisenberg, Y Hochman, D Karshon, U Badgett, WF Chapin, D Cross, R Foudas, C Mattingly, S Reeder, DD Smith, WH Vaiciulis, A Wildschek, T Wodarczyk, M Deshpande, A Dhawan, S Hughes, VW Bhadra, S Catterall, C Cole, JE Frisken, WR Hall-Wilton, R Khakzad, M Menary, S
Citation
J. Breitweg et al., Measurement of inclusive (D-s(+/-)) photoproduction at HERA, PHYS LETT B, 481(2-4), 2000, pp. 213-227
Citations number
52
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICS LETTERS B
ISSN journal
03702693 → ACNP
Volume
481
Issue
2-4
Year of publication
2000
Pages
213 - 227
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(20000525)481:2-4<213:MOI(PA>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
The first measurement of inclusive D-s(+/-) photoproduction at HERA has bee n performed with the ZEUS detector for photon-proton centre-of-mass energie s; 130 < W < 280 GeV The measured cross section for 3 < p(perpendicular to) (Ds) < 12 GeV and \eta(Ds)\ < 1.5 is sigma(ep-->DsX) = 3.79 +/- 0.59(stat.) (-0.46)(+0.26)(syst.) +/- 0.94(br.) nb, where the last error arises from th e uncertainty in the D-s(+/-) decay branching ratio. The measurements are c ompared with inclusive D*(+/-) photoproduction cross sections in the same k inematic region and with QCD calculations. The D-s(+/-) cross sections lie above a fixed-order next-to-leading order calculation and agree better with a tree-level O(alpha alpha(s)(3)) calculation that was tuned to describe t he ZEUS D* (+/-) cross sections. The ratio of D-s(+/-) to D*(+/-) cross sec tions is 0.41 +/- 0.07(stat.)(-0.05)(+0.03)(syst.) +/- 0.10 (br.). From thi s ratio, the strangeness-suppression factor in charm photoproduction, withi n the LUND string fragmentation model, has been calculated to be gamma(s)= 0.27 +/- 0.05 +/- 0.07(br.). The cross-section ratio and gamma(s) are in go od agreement with those obtained in charm production in e(+)e(-) annihilati on. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.