Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
1998-12-18
Nucl.Phys.B545:21-44,1999
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
27 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Nucl. Phys. B
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00119-4
With the H1 detector at the ep collider HERA, D* meson production cross sections have been measured in deep inelastic scattering with four-momentum transfers Q^2>2 GeV2 and in photoproduction at energies around W(gamma p)~ 88 GeV and 194 GeV. Next-to-Leading Order QCD calculations are found to describe the differential cross sections within theoretical and experimental uncertainties. Using these calculations, the NLO gluon momentum distribution in the proton, x_g g(x_g), has been extracted in the momentum fraction range 7.5x10^{-4}< x_g <4x10^{-2} at average scales mu^2 =25 to 50 GeV2. The gluon momentum fraction x_g has been obtained from the measured kinematics of the scattered electron and the D* meson in the final state. The results compare well with the gluon distribution obtained from the analysis of scaling violations of the proton structure function F_2.
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