Published October 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Beauty Photoproduction

  • 1. INFN, Padova (Italy)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universite, Padova (Italy)

Description

Beauty photoproduction in ep collisions has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA, at a center-of-mass energy of 300 GeV. Beauty quarks are tagged via their semi-leptonic decay into a muon or an electron. Events are selected by requiring the presence of two high-transverse energy jets and one high - pT lepton in the final state. The discrimination between beauty and background events is done by a fit to the prelT variable, the transverse momentum of the lepton with respect to the jet axis. Total and differential cross sections are presented and compared to leading order Monte Carlo simulations and next-to-leading order QCD predictions. (author)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Acta Physica Polonica. Series B
Journal Volume
33
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 3195-3200
ISSN
0587-4254

Conference

Title
10. International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2002)
Dates
30 Apr - 4 May 2002
Place
Cracow (Poland)

Optional Information

Notes
8 refs., 3 figs.
Collaborations
ZEUS Collaboration