Diffractive photoproduction of D*±(2010) at HERA
European Physical Journal C 51:2 (2007) 301-315
Authors:
S Chekanov, M Derrick, S Magill, B Musgrave, D Nicholass, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, M Jechow, N Pavel, AG Yagües Molina, S Antonelli, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, M Bindi, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, R Nania, A Polini, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, D Bartsch, I Brock, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, HP Jakob, M Jüngst, OM Kind, E Paul, R Renner, U Samson, V Schönberg, R Shehzadi, M Wlasenko, NH Brook, GP Heath, JD Morris, T Namsoo, M Capua, S Fazio, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, E Tassi, JY Kim, KJ Ma, ZA Ibrahim, B Kamaluddin, WAT Wan Abdullah, Y Ning, Z Ren, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, A Galas, M Gil, K Olkiewicz, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bołd, I Grabowska-Bołd, D Kisielewska, J Łukasik, M Przybycień, L Suszycki, A Kotański, W Słomiński, V Adler, U Behrens, I Bloch, C Blohm, A Bonato, K Borras, R Ciesielski, N Coppola, A Dossanov, V Drugakov, J Fourletova, A Geiser, D Gladkov, P Göttlicher, I Gregor, T Haas, W Hain, C Horn, B Kahle, II Katkov
Abstract:
Diffractive photoproduction of D*±(2010) mesons was measured with the ZEUS detector at the ep collider HERA, using an integrated luminosity of 78.6 pb-1. The D* mesons were reconstructed in the kinematic range: transverse momentum pT(D*) > 1.9 GeV and pseudorapidity |η(D*)|<1.6, using the decay D*+→D0π+s followed by D0→K-π+(+c.c.). Diffractive events were identified by a large gap in pseudorapidity between the produced hadronic state and the outgoing proton. Cross sections are reported for photon-proton centre-of-mass energies in the range 130 < W < 300 GeV and for photon virtualities Q2 < 1 GeV2, in two ranges of the Pomeron fractional momentum xIP<0.035 and xIP<0.01. The relative contribution of diffractive events to the inclusive D*±(2010) photoproduction cross section is about 6%. The data are in agreement with perturbative QCD calculations based on various parameterisations of diffractive parton distribution functions. The results are consistent with diffractive QCD factorisation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
