Measurement of inclusive(D(s)(±)) photoproduction at HERA ZEUS collaboration
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 481:2-4 (2000) 213-227
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The first measurement of inclusive D(s)(±) photoproduction at HERA has been performed with the ZEUS detector for photon-proton centre-of-mass energies 130 < W < 280GeV. The measured cross section for 3 < p (is perpendicular to)/(D(s)) < 12GeV and |η(D(s))| < 1.5 is σ(ep → D(s)X) = 3.79 ± 0.59(stat.) -0.46/+0.26 (syst.) ± 0.94(br.)nb, where the last error arises from the uncertainty in the D(s)(±) decay branching ratio. The measurements are compared with inclusive D*(±) photoproduction cross sections in the same kinematic region and with QCD calculations. The D(s)(±) cross sections lie above a fixed-order next-to-leading order calculation and agree better with a tree-level O(αα(s)/3) calculation that was tuned to describe the ZEUS D*(±) cross sections. The ratio of D(s)(±) to D*(±) cross sections is 0.41 ± 0.07 (stat.) -0.05/+0.03 (syst.) ± 0.10(br.). From this ratio, the strangeness-suppression factor in charm photoproduction, within the LUND string fragmentation model, has been calculated to be γ(s) = 0.27 ± 0.05 ± 0.07(br.). The cross-section ratio and γ(s) are in good agreement with those obtained in charm production in e+e- annihilation. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.Irradiation studies of multimode optical fibres for use in ATLAS front-end links
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 446:3 (2000) 426-434
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The radiation tolerance of three multimode optical fibres has been investigated to establish their suitability for the use in the front-end data links of the ATLAS experiment. Both gamma and neutron irradiation studies are reported. A step-index fibre with a pure silica core showed an induced attenuation of approximately 0.05 dB/m at 330 kGy(Si) and 1×1015 n(1 MeV Si)/cm2 and is suitable for use with the inner detector links which operate at 40-80 Mb/s. A graded-index fibre with a predominantly germanium-doped core exhibits an induced attenuation of approximately 0.1 dB/m at 800 Gy(Si) and 2×1013 n(1 MeV Si)/cm2 and is suitable for the calorimeter links which operate at 1.6 Gb/s. Measurements of the dose rate dependence of the induced attenuation indicate that the attenuation in ATLAS will be lower.Measurement of the Proton Structure Function F_2 at Very Low Q^2 at HERA
ArXiv hep-ex/0005018 (2000)
Measurement of the differential dijet mass cross section in pp¯ collisions at s=1.8 TeV
Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 61:9 (2000) 091101
Measuring CP violation and B0s-B̄0s mixing using B0s → J/ψφ with φ → K+K-, J/ψ → μ+μ-
Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics 26:5 (2000) 741-743