Measurement of D ± production in deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA
Journal of High Energy Physics 2013:5 (2013)
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Charm production in deep inelastic ep scattering was measured with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 354 pb-1. Charm quarks were identified by reconstructing D± mesons in the D ± → K∓π±π ± decay channel. Lifetime information was used to reduce combinatorial background substantially. Differential cross sections were measured in the kinematic region 5 < Q 2 < 1000 GeV 2, 0.02 < y < 0.7, 1.5 < p T (D ±) < 15 GeV and |η(D ±)| < 1.6, where Q 2 is the photon virtuality, y is the inelasticity, and p T (D ±) and η(D ±) are the transverse momentum and the pseudorapidity of the D ± meson, respectively. Next-to-leading-order QCD predictions are compared to the data. The charm contribution, F2cc̄, to the proton structure-function F 2 was extracted. © 2013 SISSA.Investigation of GeV-scale electron acceleration in a gas-filled capillary discharge waveguide
New Journal of Physics IOP Publishing 15:4 (2013) 045024
First measurements of muon production rate using a novel pion capture system at MuSIC
Journal of Physics Conference Series IOP Publishing 408:1 (2013) 012079
Measurement of inelastic J/ψ and ψ′ photoproduction at HERA
Journal of High Energy Physics 2013:2 (2013) 1-30
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The cross sections for inelastic photoproduction of J/ψ and ψ′ mesons have been measured in ep collisions with the ZEUS detector at HERA, using an integrated luminosity of 468 pb-1 collected in the period 1996-2007. The ψ′ to J/ψ cross section ratio was measured in the range 0.55 < z < 0.9 and 60 < W < 190 GeV as a function of W, z and pT. Here W denotes the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy, z is the fraction of the incident photon energy carried by the meson and p T is the transverse momentum of the meson with respect to the beam axis. The J/ψ cross sections were measured for 0.1 < z < 0.9, 60 < W < 240 GeV and pT > 1 GeV. Theoretical predictions within the non-relativistic QCD framework including NLO colour-singlet and colour-octet contributions were compared to the data, as were predictions based on the k T-factorisation approach. © 2013 SISSA.Production of the excited charm mesons D 1 and D 2 * at HERA
Nuclear Physics B 866:3 (2013) 229-254