Measurement of Beauty and Charm Photoproduction using Semi-muonic Decays in Dijet Events at HERA

TL;DR

This paper reports measurements of beauty and charm quark production cross sections in dijet events with muons at HERA, confirming QCD predictions with detailed detector analysis.

Contribution

First measurement of beauty and charm photoproduction cross sections using semi-muonic decays in dijet events at HERA.

Findings

Results agree with QCD predictions at leading and next-to-leading order.

Used impact parameters and transverse momentum for flavor separation.

Data collected with the H1 detector, 179 pb^{-1} luminosity.

Abstract

Measurements of cross sections for beauty and charm events with dijets and a muon in the photoproduction regime at HERA are presented. The data were collected with the H1 detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 179 pb^{-1}. Events with dijets of transverse momentum P_T^{jet1} > 7 GeV and P_T^{jet2} > 6 GeV in the pseudorapidity range -1.5< \eta^{jet} < 2.5 in the laboratory frame are selected in the kinematic region of photon virtuality Q^2 < 2.5 GeV^2 and inelasticity 0.2 < y < 0.8. One of the two selected jets must be associated to a muon with P_T^{\mu} > 2.5 GeV in the pseudorapidity range -1.3 < \eta^{\mu} < 1.5. The fractions of beauty and charm events are determined using the impact parameters of the muon tracks with respect to the primary vertex and their transverse momentum relative to the axis of the associated jet. Both variables are reconstructed using the H1 vertex detector. The measurements are in agreement with QCD predictions at leading and next-to-leading order.