https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20147100039
Charm and Beauty in Photoproduction at HERA
National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Horia Hulubei, Bucharest, Romania
a e-mail: monica.dobre@cern.ch
Published online: 29 April 2014
The photoproduction of beauty and charm quarks at the ep collider HERA are presented. The b-quarks production was investigated in the bb → eeX′ channel and the differential production cross section was measured as a function of the average transverse momentum of the beauty quarks down to the threshold. The cross section of D* meson decaying in the golden channel was determined both inclusively and in D*-tagged dijet events. Exploiting the characteristics of the heavy-flavoured hadron decays, beauty and charm quark cross sections were also measured in dijet events using secondary vertices or semi-muonic decays.
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