Measurement of Diffractive Production of D(2010) Mesons in Deep-inelastic Scattering at HERA

  • ZEUS Collaboration

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Abstract

Diffractive production of D*±(2010) mesons in deep inelastic scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 44.3 pb-1. Diffractive charm production is identified by the presence of a large rapidity gap in the final state of events in which a D*±(2010) meson is reconstructed in the decay channel D*+ → (D0 → K-π+)πs + (+ charge conjugate). Differential cross sections when compared with theoretical predictions indicate the importance of gluons in such diffractive interactions.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)244-260
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume545
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 10 2002

Disciplines

  • Physics

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