Speakers
Massimo Corradi
(Bologna University and INFN)Dr
massimo corradi
(INFN Bologna)
Description
The production of charm and beauty quarks in ep interactions has been measured
with the ZEUS detector at HERA for squared four-momentum exchange Q^2>20 GeV^2,
using an integrated luminosity of 126 pb^-1. Charm and beauty quarks were
identified through their decays into muons. Differential cross sections were
measured for muon transverse momenta p_T^{mu}>1.5 GeV and pseudorapidities
-1.6<eta^{mu}<2.3, as a function of p_T^{mu}, eta^{mu}, Q^2 and
Bjorken x. The charm and beauty contributions to the proton structure function
F_2 were also extracted. The results agree with previous measurements based
on independent techniques and are well described by QCD predictions.
Primary authors
Massimo Corradi
(Bologna University and INFN)
Monica Turcato ZEUS Collaboration
(Hamburg University)
