J/ψ production in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 370:1-2 (1996) 239-248

Authors:

S Abachi, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, I Adam, DL Adams, M Adams, S Ahn, H Aihara, J Alitti, G Álvarez, GA Alves, E Amidi, N Amos, EW Anderson, SH Aronson, R Astur, RE Avery, A Baden, V Balamurali, J Balderston, B Baldin, J Bantly, JF Bartlett, K Bazizi, J Bendich, SB Beri, I Bertram, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, A Bischoff, N Biswas, G Blazey, S Blessing, P Bloom, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, J Borders, C Boswell, A Brandt, R Brock, A Bross, D Buchholz, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, W Carvalho, D Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, SM Chang, SV Chekulaev, LP Chen, W Chen, S Chopra, BC Choudhary, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, WG Cobau, J Cochran, WE Cooper, C Cretsinger, D Cullen-Vidal, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, K De, M Demarteau, R Demina, K Denisenko, N Denisenko, D Denisov, SP Denisov, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G di Loreto, R Dixon, P Draper, J Drinkard, Y Ducros, SR Dugad, S Durston-Johnson, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, VN Evdokimov, S Fahey, T Fahland, M Fatyga, MK Fatyga, J Featherly

Abstract:

We have studied J/ψ production in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV with the DØ detector at Fermilab using μ+/μ- data. We have measured the inclusive J/ψ production cross section as a function of J/ψ transverse momentum, pT. For the kinematic range pT > 8 GeV/c and |η\ < 0.6 we obtain σ(pp̄ → J/ψ + X) ·Br(J/ψ → μ+μ-) = 2.08 ± 0.17(stat) ± 0.46(syst) nb. Using the muon impact parameter we have estimated the fraction of J/ψ mesons coming from B meson decays to be fb = 0.35 ± 0.09(stat)±0.10(syst) and inferred the inclusive b production cross section. From the information on the event topology the fraction of nonisolated J/ψ events has been measured to be fnonisol = 0.64 ± 0.08(stat)±0.06(syst). We have also obtained the fraction of J/ψ events resulting from radiative decays of χc states, fχ = 0.32 ± 0.07(stat)±0.07(syst). We discuss the implications of our measurements for charmonium production processes.

Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in \ppb\sp Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8$ TeV

ArXiv hep-ex/9603001 (1996)

Measurement of the Diffractive Cross Section in Deep Inelastic Scattering

ArXiv hep-ex/9602010 (1996)

Measurement of the proton structure function $F_2$ at low $x$ and low $Q^2$ at HERA

Zeitschrift f�r Physik C Particles and Fields Springer Science and Business Media LLC 69:4 (1996) 607-620

Rapidity gaps between jets in photoproduction at HERA

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 369:1 (1996) 55-68

Authors:

M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, D Mikunas, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, H Zhang, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, R Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, M Chiarini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, I Gialas, R Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, C Nemoz, F Palmonari, A Polini, G Sartorelli, R Timellini, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, A Bornheim, J Crittenden, K Desch, B Diekmann, T Doeker, M Eckert, L Feld, A Frey, M Geerts, M Grothe, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, L Heinz, E Hilger, HP Jakob, UF Katz, S Mengel, J Mollen, E Paul, M Pfeiffer, C Rembser, D Schramm, J Stamm, R Wedemeyer, S Campbell-Robson, A Cassidy, WN Cottingham, N Dyce, B Foster, S George, ME Hayes, GP Heath, HF Heath, CJS Morgado, JA O'Mara, D Piccioni, DG Roff, RJ Tapper, R Yoshida, RR Rau, M Arneodo, R Ayad, M Capua, A Garfagnini, L Iannotti, M Schioppa, G Susinno, A Bernstein, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, JA Parsons, S Ritz, F Sciulli, PB Straub, L Wai, S Yang, Q Zhu, P Borzemski, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, K Piotrzkowski, M Zachara

Abstract:

Photoproduction events which have two or more jets have been studied in the Wγp range 135 GeV < Wγp < 280 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA. A class of events is observed with little hadronic activity between the jets. The jets are separated by pseudorapidity intervals (Δη) of up to four units and have transverse energies greater than 6 GeV. A gap is defined as the absence between the jets of particles with transverse energy greater than 300 MeV. The fraction of events containing a gap is measured as a function of Δη. It decreases exponentially as expected for processes in which colour is exchanged between the jets, up to a value of Δη ∼ 3, then reaches a constant value of about 0.1. The excess above the exponential fall-off can be interpreted as evidence for hard diffractive scattering via a strongly interacting colour singlet object.