Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2006-09-18
Phys.Rev.D76:092002,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
329 authors, pages text, 18 figures, tables. Submitted to Physical Review D. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.092002
Muon production at forward rapidity (1.5 < |\eta| < 1.8) has been measured by the PHENIX experiment over the transverse momentum range 1 < p_T \le 3 GeV/c in sqrt(s) = 200 GeV p+p collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. After statistically subtracting contributions from light hadron decays an excess remains which is attributed to the semileptonic decays of hadrons carrying heavy flavor, i.e. charm quarks or, at high p_T, bottom quarks. The resulting muon spectrum from heavy flavor decays is compared to PYTHIA and a next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculation. PYTHIA is used to determine the charm quark spectrum that would produce the observed muon excess. The corresponding differential cross section for charm quark production at forward rapidity is determined to be d\sigma_(c c^bar)/dy|_(y=1.6)=0.243 +/- 0.013 (stat.) +/- 0.105 (data syst.) ^(+0.049)_(-0.087) (PYTHIA syst.) mb.
Adler Susanne
PHENIX Collaboration
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