26–30 Mar 2012
University of Bonn
Europe/Berlin timezone

Measurement of charm production in DIS with D* mesons and extraction of F2cc

28 Mar 2012, 10:30
18m
Wolfgang Paul Lecture Hall (University of Bonn)

Wolfgang Paul Lecture Hall

University of Bonn

Kreuzbergweg 28, 53115 Bonn, Germany,
Heavy flavours/structure functions Combined: Heavy flavours/structure functions

Speaker

Andrii Gizhko (Kiev University + DESY)

Description

Charm production has been measured with the ZEUS detector in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA. The measurement is based on the full reconstruction of the decay chain D*->D0pis, D0->Kpi and exploits the full HERA II statistics. Differential cross sections have been measured. The kinematic range is 1.5 GeV < pT(D*) < 10GeV, |eta(D*)| < 1.5, 5 < Q2 < 1000GeV2 and 0.02 < y < 0.7. The observed cross sections is extrapolated to the full pt(D*) and eta(D*) range in order to determine the open-charm contribution, F2cc(x,Q2) to the proton structure function, F2.

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