Measurement of beauty production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA using decays into electrons

H. Abramowicz, Iris Abt, L. Adamczyk, M. Adamus, Ritu Aggarwal, S. Antonelli, P. Antonioli, А. Антонов, M. Arneodo, V. Aushev

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Y. Aushev, O. Bachynska, A. Bamberger, A.N. Barakbaev, G. Barbagli, Giacomo Bari, Fernando Barreiro, N. Bartosik, D. Bartsch, M. Basile, O. Behnke, J. K. Behr, U. Behrens, L. Bellagamba, A. Bertolin, S. Bhadra, M. Bindi, C. Blohm, V. Bokhonov, T. Bołd, O. Bolilyi, E. Boos, K. Borras, D. Boscherini, D. Bot, S. Boutle, Ian C. Brock, E. Brownson, R. Brugnera, N.C. Brümmer, A. Bruni, G. Bruni, B. Brzozowska, Peter John Bussey, Jonathan Mark Butterworth, Ben Bylsma, Allen Caldwell, M. Capua, R. Carlin, C. D. Catterall, Sergei V. Chekanov, J. J. Chwastowski, J. Ciborowski, R. Ciesielski, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, A. Contin, A. M. Cooper-Sarkar, N. Coppola, M. Corradi, F. Corriveau, M. Costa, G. D’Agostini, F. Dal Corso, J. Del Peso, R. K. Dementiev, S. De Pasquale, Malcolm Derrick, R.C.E. Devenish, D. Dobur, B. A. Dolgoshein, Ganna Dolinska, A. T. Doyle, V. Drugakov, L. S. Durkin, S. Dusini, Yael Eisenberg, P. Ermolov, A. Eskreys, S. Fang, Salvatore Fazio, J. Ferrando, M.I. Ferrero, J. Figiel, M. Forrest, Brian Foster, S. Fourletov, G. P. Gach, A. Galas, E. Gallo, A. Garfagnini, A. Geiser, Ioannis Gialas, L. K. Gladilin, D. Gladkov, Claudia Glasman, O. Gogota, Ya Golubkov, P. Göttlicher, I. Grabowska-Bołd, Grzegorz Grzelak, O. Gueta, Claire Gwenlan, GIUSEPPE IACOBUCCI, M. Kaur, Prabhdeep Kaur, E. ̃Tassi, B. Pawlik, P. Stopa, L. Zawiejski, M. Przybycień, Matthew Wing, Aleksander Filip Zarnecki, M. Lisovyi, E. M. Lobodzinska

The European Physical Journal C, 2011

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DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1573-x
Data confidence 85 high
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Abstract

The production of beauty quarks in ep interactions has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA for exchanged four-momentum squared Q 2>10 GeV2, using an integrated luminosity of 363 pb−1. The beauty events were identified using electrons from semileptonic b decays with a transverse momentum $0.9 < p_{T}^{e} < 8$ GeV and pseudorapidity |η e |<1.5. Cross sections for beauty production were measured and compared with next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. The beauty contribution to the proton structure function F 2 was extracted from the double-differential cross section as a function of Bjorken-x and Q 2.