Observation of associated production of a $Z$ boson with a $D$ meson in the~forward region
ArXiv 1401.3245 (2014)
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LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, V Batozskaya, Th Bauer, A Bay, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, M Borsato, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, A Bursche, G Busetto, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, D Campora Perez, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, H Carranza-Mejia, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo, Ch Cauet, R Cenci, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, S-F Cheung, N Chiapolini, M Chrzaszcz, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Coca, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, S Coquereau, G Corti, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, J Dalseno, P David, PNY David, A Davis, I De Bonis, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, W De Silva, P De Simone, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, N Déléage, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, A Di Canto, H Dijkstra, S Donleavy, F Dordei, M Dorigo, P Dorosz, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, F Dupertuis, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, D van Eijk, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, I El Rifai, Ch Elsasser, A Falabella, C Färber, C Farinelli, S Farry, D Ferguson, V Fernandez Albor, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, M Fiore, M Fiorini, C Fitzpatrick, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, O Francisco, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, E Furfaro, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J Garofoli, P Garosi, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, C Gaspar, R Gauld, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, A Gianelle, V Gibson, L Giubega, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, H Gordon, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, E Greening, S Gregson, P Griffith, L Grillo, O Grünberg, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, TW Hafkenscheid, SC Haines, S Hall, B Hamilton, T Hampson, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, ST Harnew, J Harrison, T Hartmann, J He, T Head, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, M Heß, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hoballah, C Hombach, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, T Huse, N Hussain, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, V Iakovenko, M Idzik, P Ilten, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, E Jans, P Jaton, A Jawahery, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, M Kaballo, S Kandybei, W Kanso, M Karacson, TM Karbach, IR Kenyon, T Ketel, B Khanji, S Klaver, O Kochebina, I Komarov, RF Koopman, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, A Kozlinskiy, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, RW Lambert, E Lanciotti, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, S Leo, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, F Lionetto, B Liu, G Liu, S Lohn, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, N Lopez-March, P Lowdon, H Lu, D Lucchesi, J Luisier, H Luo, E Luppi, O Lupton, F Machefert, IV 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Abstract:
A search for associated production of a $Z$ boson with an open charm meson is presented using a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $1.0\,\mathrm{fb}^{-`}$ of proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7\,TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment. %% Seven candidate events for associated production of a $Z$ boson with a $D^0$ meson and four candidate events for a $Z$ boson with a $D^+$ meson are observed with a combined significance of 5.1standard deviations. The production cross-sections in the forward region are measured to be $$σ_{Z\rightarrowμ^+μ^-\!,D^0} = 2.50\pm1.12\pm0.22pb$$ $$σ_{Z\rightarrowμ^+μ^-\!,D^+} = 0.44\pm0.23\pm0.03pb,$$ where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.
