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Charm fragmentation and dijet angular distributions

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Charm fragmentation and dijet angular distributions have been measured in DD^* photoproduction at HERA. Charm fragmentation and its property of universality is evaluated in terms of measurement of PvP_v, the ratio of vector/(vector + pseudoscalar) mesons. Angular distributions of dijets, with at least one of the jets associated with a D±D^{*\pm} meson, have been measured for samples enriched in direct or resolved photon events. The differential cross section shows a steep rise for resolved events in the photon direction, providing strong evidence that the bulk of the resolved photon cross section is due to the charm content of the photon. The shallower rise for direct events as well as for resolved photon events in the proton direction are consistent with the quark exchange diagrams.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0207023,
  title  = {Charm fragmentation and dijet angular distributions},
  author = {Sanjay Padhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0207023},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Presented at 10th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2002), Cracow, Poland, 30 Apr - 4 May 2002. Submitted to Acta Phys.Polon. 5 pages, 9 figures