Measurement of D*+ production in charged-current neutrino interactions

Autor: I. Tezuka, Osamu Sato, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Sato, H. Meinhard, N. Nonaka, S. Buontempo, Gulsen Onengut, F. Di Capua, Koichi Kodama, Piero Zucchelli, V. Shamanov, G. Grella, K. Niu, T. Okusawa, P. Strolin, D. Kolev, Cristiano Bozza, S. Sorrentino, Biagio Saitta, G. De Rosa, Ilya Tsukerman, J. W. E. Uiterwijk, L. Scotto Lavina, S. Ogawa, Pierre Vilain, H. Shibuya, Nicola D'Ambrosio, Jiro Kawada, V. Tioukov, C. S. Yoon, Alexandre Rozanov, G. Grégoire, A. Kayis-Topaksu, P. F. Loverre, A. Satta, M. T. Muciaccia, B. Van de Vyver, M. Messina, L. Ludovici, K. Winter, T. Kawamura, Alfredo G. Cocco, A. Marotta, P. Gorbunov, J. Panman, Rudolf Oldeman, G. Romano, G. Fiorillo, N. Ushida, A. Artamonov, G. Rosa, J. S. Song, Gaston Wilquet, P. Tolun, K. Hoshino, M. de Jong, Masahiro Komatsu, T. Toshito, J. Goldberg, F. R. Spada, U. Kose, Murat Guler, I. Makhlioueva, Toshiyuki Nakano, R. van Dantzig, K. Narita, E. Barbuto, G. De Lellis, E. Di Capua, Chiara Sirignano, V. Khovansky, Shigeki Aoki, K. Niwa, N. Bruski, Th. Delbar, R. Tsenov, M. G. Catanesi, Ivana Hristova, Michiyuki Chikawa, P. Migliozzi, T. Hara, Motoaki Miyanishi, S. Kalinin, U. Dore, D. Frekers, Denis Favart, R. Santacesaria
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B. 614:155-164
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.03.081
Popis: During the years 1994–1997, the emulsion target of the CHORUS detector was exposed to the wide-band neutrino beam of the CERN SPS of 27 GeV average neutrino energy. In total about 100 000 charged-current neutrino interactions were located in the nuclear emulsion target and fully reconstructed. A high-statistics sample of neutrino interactions with a D 0 in the final state was collected. Using the decay mode D * + → D 0 π + a production cross-section measurement of the D * + in neutrino–nucleon charged-current interactions was performed. The low Q-value of the decay was used to isolate a sample of candidate events containing a positive hadron with a small p T with respect to the D 0 direction. A signal of 22.1 ± 5.5 D * + events was obtained. The D * + production cross-section relative to the D 0 production cross-section, σ ( D * + ) / σ ( D 0 ) , was estimated to be 0.38 ± 0.09 ( stat ) ± 0.05 ( syst ) . From this result, the fraction of D 0 's produced via the decay of a D * was deduced to be 0.63 ± 0.17 . The D * + production cross-section relative to the ν μ charged-current interaction, σ ( D * + ) / σ ( CC ) , was estimated to be [ 1.02 ± 0.25 ( stat ) ± 0.15 ( syst ) ] % .
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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