Abstract
Abstract: The production of beauty and charm quarks in ep interactions has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA for exchanged four-momentum squared 5 < Q2< 1000 GeV2using an integrated luminosity of 354 pb−1. The beauty and charm content in events with at least one jet have been extracted using the invariant mass of charged tracks associated with secondary vertices and the decay-length significance of these vertices. Differential cross sections as a function of Q2, Bjorken x, jet trans- verse energy and pseudorapidity were measured and compared with next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. The beauty and charm contributions to the proton structure functions were extracted from the double-differential cross section as a function of x and Q2. The running beauty-quark mass, mbat the scale mb, was determined from a QCD fit at next-to-leading order to HERA data for the first time and found to be mb(mb) = 4.07 ± 0.14 (fit)− 0.07 + 0.01(mod.)− 0.00 + 0.05(param.)− 0.05 + 0.08(theo.) GeV.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 127 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-56 |
Number of pages | 56 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Volume | 2014 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Funding
Publisher Copyright: © 2014, The Author(s).
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics