Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-03-30
Eur.Phys.J.C51:301-315,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
LaTeX2e, 29 pages, 9 Postscript figures, 4 tables, minor revisions, accepted for publication in the European Physical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0326-3
Diffractive photoproduction of D*+/-(2010) mesons was measured with the ZEUS detector at the ep collider HERA, using an integrated luminosity of 78.6 pb^{-1}. The D* mesons were reconstructed in the kinematic range: transverse momentum p_T(D*) > 1.9 GeV and pseudorapidity |eta(D*)| < 1.6, using the decay D*+ -> D0 pi+_s followed by D0 -> K- pi+ (+c.c.). Diffractive events were identified by a large gap in pseudorapidity between the produced hadronic state and the outgoing proton. Cross sections are reported for photon-proton centre-of-mass energies in the range 130 < W < 300 GeV and for photon virtualities Q^2 < 1 GeV^2, in two ranges of the Pomeron fractional momentum x_pom < 0.035 and x_pom < 0.01. The relative contribution of diffractive events to the inclusive D*+/-(2010) photoproduction cross section is about 6%. The data are in agreement with perturbative QCD calculations based on various parameterisations of diffractive parton distribution functions. The results are consistent with diffractive QCD factorisation.
Chekanov S.
ZEUS Collaboration
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