Measurement of beauty and charm production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA and measurement of the beauty-quark mass

Abramowicz, H. et al. (2014) Measurement of beauty and charm production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA and measurement of the beauty-quark mass. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014, 127. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP09(2014)127)

Abstract

The production of beauty and charm quarks in ep interactions has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA for exchanged four-momentum squared 5 < Q2 < 1000 GeV2 using an integrated luminosity of 354 pb−1 . The beauty and charm content in events with at least one jet have been extracted using the invariant mass of charged tracks associated with secondary vertices and the decay-length significance of these vertices. Differential cross sections as a function of Q2 , Bjorken x, jet transverse energy and pseudorapidity were measured and compared with next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. The beauty and charm contributions to the proton structure functions were extracted from the double-differential cross section as a function of x and Q2 . The running beauty-quark mass, mb at the scale mb, was determined from a QCD fit at next-to-leading order to HERA data for the first time and found to be mb(mb) = 4.07 ± 0.14 (fit)+0.01 −0.07 (mod.) +0.05 −0.00 (param.) +0.08 −0.05 (theo.) GeV.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Ferrando, Dr James and Saxon, Professor David and Bussey, Dr Peter and Skillicorn, Professor Ian
• Authors: Abramowicz, H., Abt, I., Adamczyk, L., Adamus, M., Aggarwal, R., Antonelli, S., Arslan, O., Aushev, V., Aushev, Y., Bachynska, O., Barakbaev, A. N., Bartosik, N., Behnke, O., Behr, J., Behrens, U., Bertolin, A., Bhadra, S., Bloch, I., Bokhonov, V., Boos, E. G., Borras, K., Brock, I., Brugnera, R., Bruni, A., Brzozowska, B., Bussey, P.J., Caldwell, A., Capua, M., Catterall, C. D., Chwastowski, J., Ciborowski, J., Ciesielski, R., Cooper-Sarkar, A. M., Corradi, M., Corriveau, F., D’Agostini, G., Dementiev, R. K., Devenish, R. C. E., Dolinska, G., Drugakov, V., Dusini, S., Ferrando, J., Figiel, J., Foster, B., Gach, G., Garfagnini, A., Geiser, A., Gizhko, A., Gladilin, L. K., Gogota, O., Golubkov, Y. A., Grebenyuk, J., Gregor, I., Grzelak, G., Gueta, O., Guzik, M., Hain, W., Hartner, G., Hochman, D., Hori, R., Ibrahim, Z. A., Iga, Y., Ishitsuka, M., Iudin, A., Januschek, F., Kadenko, I., Kananov, S., Kanno, T., Karshon, U., Kaur, M., Kaur, P., Khein, L. A., Kisielewska, D., Klanner, R., Klein, U., Kondrashova, N., Kononenko, O., Korol, I., Korzhavina, I. A., Kotanski, A., Kötz, U., Kovalchuk, N., Kowalski, H., Kuprash, O., Kuze, M., Levchenko, B. B., Levy, A., Libov, V., Limentani, S., Lisovyi, M., Lobodzinska, E., Lohmann, W., Löhr, B., Lohrmann, E., Longhin, A., Lontkovskyi, D., Lukina, O. Y., Maeda, J., Makarenko, I., Malka, J., Martin, J. F., Mergelmeyer, S., Mohamad Idris, F., Mujkic, K., Myronenko, V., Nagano, K., Nigro, A., Nobe, T., Notz, D., Nowak, R. J., Olkiewicz, K., Onishchuk, Y., Paul, E., Perlanski, W., Perrey, H., Pokrovskiy, N. S., Proskuryakov, A. S., Przybycien, M., Raval, A., Roloff, P., Rubinsky, I., Ruspa, M., Samojlov, V., Saxon, D.H.,, Schioppa, M., Schmidke, W. B., Schneekloth, U., Schörner-Sadenius, T., Schwartz, J., Shcheglova, L. M., Shehzadi, R., Shevchenko, R., Shkola, O., Singh, I., Skillicorn, I.O., Slominski, W., Sola, V., Solano, A., Spiridonov, A., Stanco, L., Stefaniuk, N., Stern, A., Stewart, T. P., Stopa, P., Sztuk-Dambietz, J., Szuba, D., Szuba, J., Tassi, E., Temiraliev, T., Tokushuku, K., Tomaszewska, J., Trofymov, A., Trusov, V., Tsurugai, T., Turcato, M., Turkot, O., Tymieniecka, T., Verbytskyi, A., Viazlo, O., Walczak, R., Wan Abdullah, W. A. T., Wichmann, K., Wing, M., Wolf, G., Yamada, S., Yamazaki, Y., Zakharchuk, N., Żarnecki, A. F., Zawiejski, L., Zenaiev, O., Zhautykov, B. O., Zhmak, N., and Zotkin, D. S.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Journal Abbr.: J. High Energy Phys.
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• ISSN (Online): 1029-8479
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2014 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2014:127
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