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Measurement of beauty and charm production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA and measurement of the beauty-quark mass

Journal of High Energy Physics 2014:9 (2014) 1-56

Authors:

H Abramowicz, I Abt, L Adamczyk, M Adamus, R Aggarwal, S Antonelli, O Arslan, V Aushev, Y Aushev, O Bachynska, AN Barakbaev, N Bartosik, O Behnke, J Behr, U Behrens, A Bertolin, S Bhadra, I Bloch, V Bokhonov, EG Boos, K Borras, I Brock, R Brugnera, A Bruni, B Brzozowska, PJ Bussey, A Caldwell, M Capua, CD Catterall, J Chwastowski, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, AM Cooper-Sarkar, M Corradi, F Corriveau, G D’Agostini, RK Dementiev, RCE Devenish, G Dolinska, V Drugakov, S Dusini, J Ferrando, J Figiel, B Foster, G Gach, A Garfagnini, A Geiser, A Gizhko, LK Gladilin, O Gogota, YA Golubkov, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor, G Grzelak, O Gueta, M Guzik, W Hain, G Hartner, D Hochman, R Hori, ZA Ibrahim, Y Iga, M Ishitsuka, A Iudin, F Januschek, I Kadenko, S Kananov, T Kanno, U Karshon, M Kaur, P Kaur, LA Khein, D Kisielewska, R Klanner, U Klein, N Kondrashova, O Kononenko, I Korol, IA Korzhavina, A Kotanski, U Kötz, N Kovalchuk, H Kowalski, O Kuprash, M Kuze, BB Levchenko, A Levy, V Libov, S Limentani, M Lisovyi, E Lobodzinska, W Lohmann, B Löhr, E Lohrmann, A Longhin, D Lontkovskyi, OY Lukina, J Maeda, I Makarenko, J Malka

Abstract:

Abstract: The production of beauty and charm quarks in ep interactions has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA for exchanged four-momentum squared 5 < Q2< 1000 GeV2using an integrated luminosity of 354 pb−1. The beauty and charm content in events with at least one jet have been extracted using the invariant mass of charged tracks associated with secondary vertices and the decay-length significance of these vertices. Differential cross sections as a function of Q2, Bjorken x, jet trans- verse energy and pseudorapidity were measured and compared with next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. The beauty and charm contributions to the proton structure functions were extracted from the double-differential cross section as a function of x and Q2. The running beauty-quark mass, mbat the scale mb, was determined from a QCD fit at next-to-leading order to HERA data for the first time and found to be mb(mb) = 4.07 ± 0.14 (fit)− 0.07+ 0.01(mod.)− 0.00+ 0.05(param.)− 0.05+ 0.08(theo.) GeV.
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Order dependent spatial properties of high harmonic generation

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (2014)

Authors:

DT Lloyd, K O'Keeffe, SM Hooker

Abstract:

We report on the dependence of the spatial properties of high harmonic generation on the harmonic order. We present interesting features in the transverse spatial coherence which may be important for coherent imaging experiments © OSA 2014.

Order dependent spatial properties of high harmonic generation

Optics Infobase Conference Papers (2014)

Authors:

DT Lloyd, K O'Keeffe, SM Hooker

Abstract:

We report on the dependence of the spatial properties of high harmonic generation on the harmonic order. We present interesting features in the transverse spatial coherence which may be important for coherent imaging experiments.Research in Optical Sciences © OSA 2014.
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Order Dependent Spatial Properties of High Harmonic Generation

Optica Publishing Group (2014) jw2a.11

Authors:

David Lloyd, Simon M Hooker, Kevin O'Keeffe
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Sub-micrometre resolution laser wire transverse beam size measurement system

IPAC 2013: Proceedings of the 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference (2013) 795-797

Authors:

LJ Nevay, GA Blair, ST Boogert, P Karataev, K Krunchinin, L Corner, R Walczak, A Aryshev, J Urakawa, N Terunuma

Abstract:

We present the results from the laserwire system at the Accelerator Test Facility 2 (ATF2) during recent operation after relocation to the virtual image point of the ATF2 final focus. The characterisation of the 150 mJ, 77 ps long laser pulses at a scaled virtual interaction point is used to deconvolve the transverse laserwire profile demonstrating a 1.16 ± 0.06 μm vertical electron beam profile. Horizontal laserwire scans were used in combination with the vertical scans to measure the electron beam size using a full overlap integral model due to the problems presented by a large aspect ratio electron beam. Copyright © 2013 by JACoW.