Measurement of D*(+/-) meson production and determination of F(2)(c(c)over-bar) at low Q(2) in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA
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2011-10Type
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Abstract
Inclusive production of D ∗ mesons in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA is studied in the range 5<Q 2<100 GeV2 of the photon virtuality and 0.02<y<0.7 of the inelasticity of the scattering process. The observed phase space for the D ∗ meson is p T (D ∗)>1.25 GeV and |η(D ∗)|<1.8. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 348 pb−1 collected with the H1 detector. Single and double differential cross sections are measured and the charm contribution Fcc¯2 to the proton structure function F 2 is determined. The results are compared to perturbative QCD predictions at next-to-leading order implementing different schemes for the charm mass treatment and with Monte Carlo models based on leading order matrix elements with parton showers. Show more
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The European Physical Journal CVolume
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