Publication
Title
Measurement of D* production in diffractive deep inelastic scattering at HERA
Author
Institution/Organisation
H1 Collaboration
Abstract
Measurements of D*(2010) meson production in diffractive deep inelastic scattering (5 < Q(2) < 100 GeV2) are presented which are based on HERA data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy root s = 319 GeV with an integrated luminosity of 287 pb(-1). The reaction ep -> eXY is studied, where the system X, containing at least one D*(2010) meson, is separated from a leading low-mass proton dissociative system Y by a large rapidity gap. The kinematics of D* candidates are reconstructed in the D* -> K pi pi decay channel. The measured cross sections compare favourably with next-to-leading order QCD predictions, where charm quarks are produced via boson-gluon fusion. The charm quarks are then independently fragmented to the D* mesons. The calculations rely on the collinear factorisation theorem and are based on diffractive parton densities previously obtained by II1 from fits to inclusive diffractive cross sections. The data are further used to determine the diffractive to inclusive D* production ratio in deep inelastic scattering.
Language
English
Source (journal)
European physical journal : C : particles and fields. - Berlin
Publication
Berlin : 2017
ISSN
1434-6044
1434-6052
DOI
10.1140/EPJC/S10052-017-4875-9
Volume/pages
77 :5 (2017) , 14 p.
Article Reference
340
ISI
000411293300001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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