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Measurement of the multiplicity of gluons splitting to bottom quark pairs in hadronic Z0 decays

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 405:1-2 (1997) 202-214

Authors:

P Abreu, W Adam, T Adye, I Ajinenko, GD Alekseev, R Alemany, U Amaldi, S Amato, P Andersson, A Andreazza, P Antilogus, WD Apel, B Åsman, JE Augustin, A Augustinus, P Baillon, P Bambade, F Barao, M Barbi, G Barbiellini, DY Bardin, G Barker, A Baroncelli, O Barring, MJ Bates, M Battaglia, M Baubillier, J Baudot, KH Becks, M Begalli, P Beilliere, Y Belokopytov, K Belous, AC Benvenuti, M Berggren, D Bertini, D Bertrand, M Besancon, F Bianchi, M Bigi, MS Bilenky, P Billoir, MA Bizouard, D Bloch, M Blume, M Bonesini, W Bonivento, PSL Booth, AW Borgland, G Borisov, C Bosio, O Botner, E Boudinov, B Bouquet, C Bourdarios, TJV Bowcock, M Bozzo, P Branchini, KD Brand, T Brenke, RA Brenner, C Bricman, RCA Brown, P Bruckman, JM Brunet, L Bugge, T Buran, T Burgsmueller, P Buschmann, S Cabrera, M Caccia, M Calvi, AJ Camacho Rozas, T Camporesi, V Canale, M Canepa, F Cao, F Carena, L Carroll, C Caso, MV Castillo Gimenez, A Cattai, FR Cavallo, V Chabaud, P Charpentier, L Chaussard, P Cbecchia, GA Chelkov, M Chen, R Chierici, P Chliapnikov, P Chochula, V Chorowicz, V Cindro, P Collins, R Contri, E Cortina, G Cosme, F Cossutti, JH Cowell

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An inclusive measurement of the average multiplicity of bb̄ pairs from gluons, gbb̄, in hadronic Z0 events collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP, is presented. A counting technique, based on jet b-tagging in 4-jet events, has been used. Looking for secondary bottom production in events with production of any primary flavour, by requiring two b-tagged jets in well defined topological configurations, gave gbb̄ = (0.21 ± 0.11(stat) ± 0.09(syst))%. This result was checked with a different method designed to select events with four b quarks in the final state. Agreement within the errors was found.© 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
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Measurement of the transverse spin correlation in Z → τ+ τ- decays

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 404:1-2 (1997) 194-206

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E Abreu, W Adam, T Adye, I Ajinenko, GD Alekseev, R Alemany, PP Allport, S Almehed, U Amaldi, S Amato, P Andersson, A Andreazza, P Antilogus, WD Apel, B Åsman, JE Augustin, A Augustinus, P Baillon, P Bambade, E Barao, M Barbi, DY Bardin, G Barker, A Baroncelli, O Barring, MJ Bates, M Battaglia, M Baubillier, J Baudot, KH Becks, M Begalli, P Beilliere, Y Belokopytov, K Belous, AC Benvenuti, M Berggren, D Bertini, D Bertrand, M Besancon, F Bianchi, M Bigi, MS Bilenky, P Billoir, MA Bizouard, D Bloch, M Blume, M Bonesini, W Bonivento, PSL Booth, AW Borgland, G Borisov, C Bosio, O Botner, E Boudinov, B Bouquet, C Bourdarios, TJV Bowcock, I Bozovic, M Bozzo, P Branchini, KD Brand, T Brenke, RA Brenner, C Bricman, RCA Brown, P Bruckman, JM Brunet, L Bugge, T Buran, T Burgsmueller, P Buschmann, S Cabrera, M Caccia, M Calvi, AJ Camacho Rozas, T Camporesi, V Canale, M Canepa, E Cao, F Carena, L Carroll, C Caso, MV Castillo Gimenez, A Cattai, FR Cavallo, V Chabaud, P Charpentier, L Chaussard, P Checchia, GA Chelkov, M Chen, R Chierici, P Chliapnikov, P Chochula, V Chorowicz, V Cindro, P Collins, R Contri, E Cortina, G Cosme

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The measurement of the correlation between the transverse spin components of τ+ τ- pairs collected during 1992 to 1994 with the DELPHI detector at LEP1 is presented. A value CTT = 0.87 ± 0.20 (stat.) +0.10-0.12 (syst.) was obtained for the correlation parameter, in agreement with the Standard Model expectation. © 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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Study of photon dissociation in diffractive photoproduction at HERA

Zeitschrift fur Physik C-Particles and Fields 75:3 (1997) 421-435

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J Breitweg, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, D Mikunas, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, R Yoshida, H Zhang, MCK Mattingly, F Anselmo, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, I Gialas, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, I Brock, K Coböken, J Crittenden, R Deffner, M Ecken, L Feld, M Grothe, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, L Heinz, E Hilger, HP Jakob, UF Katz, E Paul, M Pfeiffer, C Rembser, J Stamm, R Wedemeyer, DS Bailey, S Campbell-Robson, WN Cottingham, B Foster, R Hall-Wilton, ME Hayes, GP Heath, HF Heath, D Piccioni, DG Roff, RJ Tapper, M Arneodo, R Ayad, M Capua, A Garfagnini, L Iannotti, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, Z Jing, W Liu, JA Parsons, S Ritz, S Sampson, F Sciulli, PB Straub, Q Zhu, P Borzemski, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, Z Jakubowski, MB Przybycień, M Zachara, L Zawiejski

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Diffractive dissociation of quasi-real photons at a photon-proton centre of mass energy of W ≈ 200 GeV is studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The process under consideration is γp → XN, where X is the diffractively dissociated photon system of mass MX and N is either a proton or a nucleonic system with mass MN < 2 GeV. The cross section for this process in the interval 3 < MX < 24 GeV relative to the total photoproduction cross section was measured to be σDpartial/σtot = 6.2 ± 0.2(stat) ± 1.4(syst)%. After extrapolating this result to the mass interval of mφ2 < MX2 < 0.05W2 and correcting it for proton dissociation, the fraction of the total cross section attributed to single diffractive photon dissociation, γp → Xp, is found to be σSD/σtot = 13.3 ± 0.5(stat) ± 3.6(syst)%. The mass spectrum of the dissociated photon system in the interval 8 < MX < 24 GeV can be described by the triple pomeron (IP IP IP) diagram with an effective pomeron intercept of αIP(0) = 1.12 ± 0.04(stat) ± 0.08(syst). The cross section for photon dissociation in the range 3 < MX < 8 GeV is significantly higher than that expected from the triple pomeron amplitude describing the region 8 < MX < 24 GeV. Assuming that this discrepancy is due to a pomeron-pomeron-reggeon (IP IP IR) term, its contribution to the diffractive cross section in the interval 3 < MX < 24 GeV is estimated to be fIP IP IR = 26 ± 3(stat) ± 12(syst)%. © Springer-Verlag 1997.
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Measurement of elastic J/ψ photoproduction at HERA

Zeitschrift fur Physik C-Particles and Fields 75:2 (1997) 215-228

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J Breitweg, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, D Mikunas, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, R Yoshida, H Zhang, MCK Mattingly, F Anselmo, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, I Gialas, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, I Brock, K Coböken, J Crittenden, R Deffner, M Eckert, L Feld, M Grothe, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, L Heinz, E Hilger, HP Jakob, UF Katz, E Paul, M Pfeiffer, C Rembser, J Stamm, R Wedemeyer, DS Bailey, S Campbell-Robson, WN Cottingham, B Foster, R Hall-Wilton, ME Hayes, GP Heath, HF Heath, D Piccioni, DG Roff, RJ Tapper, M Arneodo, R Ayad, M Capua, A Garfagnini, L Iannotti, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, Z Jing, W Liu, JA Parsons, S Ritz, S Sampson, F Sciulli, PB Straub, Q Zhu, P Borzemski, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, Z Jakubowski, MB Przybycień, M Zachara, L Zawiejski

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The reaction γ p → J/ψ p has been studied in ep interactions using the ZEUS detector at HERA. The cross section for elastic J/ψ photoproduction has been measured as a function of the photon-proton centre of mass energy W in the range 40 < W < 140 GeV at a median photon virtuality Q2 of 5 × 10-5 GeV2. The photoproduction cross section, σγp→J/ψp, is observed to rise steeply with W. A fit to the data presented in this paper to determine the parameter δ in the form σγp→J/ψp α Wδ yields the value δ = 0.92±0.14±0.10. The differential cross section dσ/d|t| is presented over the range |t| < 1.0 GeV2 where t is the square of the four-momentum exchanged at the proton vertex. dσ/d|t| falls exponentially with a slope parameter of 4.6 ± 0.4-0.6+0.4 GeV-2. The measured decay angular distributions are consistent with s-channel helicity conservation. © Springer-Verlag 1997.
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Differential cross sections of D*± photoproduction in ep collisions at HERA

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 401:1-2 (1997) 192-206

Authors:

J Breitweg, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, D Mikunas, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, R Yoshida, H Zhang, MCK Mattingly, F Anselmo, R Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, I Gialas, R Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, S de Pasquale, A Pesci, A Polini, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, I Brock, K Coböken, J Crittenden, R Deffner, M Eckert, L Feld, M Grothe, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, L Heinz, E Hilger, HP Jakob, UF Katz, E Paul, M Pfeiffer, C Rembser, J Stamm, R Wedemeyer, DS Bailey, S Campbell-Robson, WN Cottingham, B Foster, R Hall-Wilton, ME Hayes, GP Heath, HF Heath, D Piccioni, DG Roff, RJ Tapper, M Arneodo, R Ayad, M Capua, A Garfagnini, L Iannotti, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, Z Jing, W Liu, JA Parsons, S Ritz, S Sampson, F Sciulli, PB Straub, Q Zhu, P Borzemski, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, Z Jakubowski, MB Przybycień, M Zachara, L Zawiejski

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Inclusive photoproduction of D*± in ep collisions at HERA has been measured with the ZEUS detector for photon-proton centre of mass energies in the range 115 < W < 280 GeV and photon virtuality Q2 < 4 GeV2. The cross section σ → D*X integrated over the kinematic region pDz.ast;⊥ > 3 GeV and -1.5 < ηD* < 1.0 is (10.6 ± 1.7(stat.) ± 1.61.3 (syst.)) nb. Differential cross sections as functions of pD*⊥, ηD* and W are given. The data are compared with two next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions. For a calculation using a massive charm scheme the predicted cross sections are smaller than the measured ones. A recent calculation using a massless charm scheme is in agreement with the data. © 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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