Measurement of D + and Λ c + production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

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, D. Bartsch, M. Basile, O. Behnke, J. K. Behr, U. Behrens, L. Bellagamba, A. Bertolin, S. Bhadra, M. Bindi, C. Blohm, T. Bołd, E. Boos, M. Borodin, 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, A. 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. de Favereau, J. Del Peso, R. K. Dementiev, S. De Pasquale, Malcolm Derrick, R.C.E. Devenish, D. Dobur, B. A. Dolgoshein, 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, Yu. A. Golubkov, P. Göttlicher, I. Grabowska-Bołd, J. Grebenyuk, I. M. Gregor

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010

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DOI 10.1007/jhep11(2010)009
Data confidence 70 medium
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Abstract

Charm production in deep inelastic scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb−1. The hadronic decay channels D + → K S 0 π +, Λ c + → pK S 0 and Λ c + → Λπ +, and their charge conjugates, were reconstructed. The presence of a neutral strange hadron in the final state reduces the combinatorial background and extends the measured sensitivity into the low transverse momentum region. The kinematic range is 0 < p T (D +, Λ c +) < 10 GeV, |η(D +, Λ c +)| < 1.6, 1.5 < Q 2 < 1000 GeV2 and 0.02 < y < 0.7. Inclusive and differential cross sections for the production of D + mesons are compared to next-to-leading-order QCD predictions. The fraction of c quarks hadronising into Λ c + baryons is extracted.