pith. sign in

arxiv: hep-ex/0312057 · v2 · pith:6TJWKCEJnew · submitted 2003-12-22 · ✦ hep-ex

Beauty photoproduction measured using decays into muons in dijet events in ep collisions at sqrt{s}=318 GeV

classification ✦ hep-ex
keywords beautyjetsmomentummuoneventsfractionmeasuredphotoproduction
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

The photoproduction of beauty quarks in events with two jets and a muon has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 110 pb$^{- 1}$. The fraction of jets containing b quarks was extracted from the transverse momentum distribution of the muon relative to the closest jet. Differential cross sections for beauty production as a function of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the muon, of the associated jet and of $x_{\gamma}^{jets}$, the fraction of the photon's momentum participating in the hard process, are compared with MC models and QCD predictions made at next-to-leading order. The latter give a good description of the data.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.