Observation of neutral current charm production in nu Fe-mu scattering at the Fermilab Tevatron - art. no. 012002

Authors
Alton, A Adams, T Bolton, T Goldman, J Goncharov, M Johnson, RA Suwonjandee, N Vakili, M Conrad, J Fleming, BT Formaggio, J Kim, JH Koutsoliotas, S McNulty, C Romosan, A Shaevitz, MH Spentzouris, P Stern, EG Vaitaitis, A Zimmerman, ED Bernstein, RH Bugel, L Lamm, MJ Marsh, W Nienaber, P Yu, J de Barbaro, L Buchholz, D Schellman, H Zeller, GP Brau, J Drucker, RB Frey, R Mason, D McDonald, J Naples, D Avvakumov, S de Barbaro, P Bodek, A Budd, H Harris, DA McFarland, KS Sakumoto, WK Yang, UK
Citation
A. Alton et al., Observation of neutral current charm production in nu Fe-mu scattering at the Fermilab Tevatron - art. no. 012002, PHYS REV D, 6401(1), 2001, pp. 2002
Citations number
32
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6401
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(20010701)6401:1<2002:OONCCP>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
We report on the first observation of open charm production in neutral curr ent deep inelastic neutrino scattering as seen in the NuTeV detector at Fer milab. The production rate is shown to be consistent with a pure gluon-Z(0) boson production model, and the observed level of charm production is used to determine the effective charm mass. As part of our analysis, we also ob tain a new measurement for the proton-nucleon charm production cross sectio n at roots = 38.8 GeV.