A precision measurement of charm dimuon production in neutrino interactions from the NOMAD experiment

Autor: K. Schahmaneche, C.T. Kullenberg, P. Hurst, L. Di Lella, J.-P. Mendiburu, M. Valdata-Nappi, Alessandro Cardini, J.J. Kim, R. Challis, S.A. Bunyatov, J. A. Hernando, V. Tereshchenko, Roberto Ferrari, A. Baldisseri, Th. Stolarczyk, G. Collazuol, Mario Stipčević, A. Cervera-Villanueva, C. Lachaud, Giacomo Graziani, K. Benslama, T. Weisse, B. A. Popov, M. E. Sevior, A. Lanza, F. Bobisut, A. Marchionni, M. T. Tran, Bruce Yabsley, X. Méchain, E. Gangler, H. Zaccone, C. Joseph, F. Salvatore, P. Astier, Caroline Poulsen, Domizia Orestano, Mikhail Kirsanov, R. Cousins, M. Mezzetto, M. Contalbrigo, D. Autiero, R. Petti, Stefano Lacaprara, Marco Laveder, Kai Zuber, Fergus Wilson, S.N. Tovey, J.-M. Vieira, J. M. Levy, Sergey A. Kulagin, A.M. Scott, A. Sconza, Yu. Nefedov, L. Vacavant, L. La Rotonda, Frédéric Juget, S. R. Mishra, Chiara Roda, E. Pennacchio, O.L. Klimov, H. Degaudenzi, G. J. Feldman, Fr Pastore, N. Hyett, D. Pollmann, G. F. Moorhead, D. Geppert, Luca Rebuffi, P. Riemann, Artem Chukanov, V. V. Lyubushkin, E. do Couto e Silva, P.W. Cattaneo, Ante Ljubičić, Didier Ferrere, Kevin Varvell, Barry Blumenfeld, Alexey Krasnoperov, J. Kokkonen, M. Baldo-Ceolin, M. Banner, H. Duyang, C. Conta, C. Nguyen-Mau, T. Del Prete, B. Schmidt, Sergei Gninenko, J. Dumarchez, A. Grant, H. Pessard, A. Godley, P. Nedelec, Valerio Vercesi, M. Veltri, Dmitry V. Naumov, G. Conforto, J. Long, Claus Gößling, Vyacheslav Valuev, J. Libo, Malcolm Ellis, F. Vannucci, Alexander Toropin, L. S. Peak, E. Tsesmelis, Caren Hagner, T. Schmidt, P. Zuccon, A. Kovzelev, Antonio Bueno, J. Bouchez, O. Samoylov, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, A. Lupi, A. Placci, D. Steele, A. De Santo, L. Linssen, Marco Fraternali, Sergey Alekhin, V. Flaminio, F. J. P. Soler, F.V. Weber, T. Vinogradova, André Rubbia, E. Iacopini, Vincenzo Cavasinni, A.-M. Touchard, A. Polyarush, Achim Geiser, J. Gosset, D. Gibin, Q. Wu, U. Stiegler, G. Bassompierre, J. Rico, S. Boyd, B. Lakić, G. N. Taylor, J.M. Gaillard, J-P. Meyer, L. Camilleri, L.J. Winton, J. Ulrichs, D. Sillou, G. Sozzi, A. Guglielmi, I. Bird, X.C. Tian, Nathalie Besson, G. Vidal-Sitjes, Michel Gouanère, F. Martelli, N. Kent, A. Letessier-Selvon, Giacomo Polesello, M. Tareb-Reyes
Přispěvatelé: Orestano, Domizia, National Science Foundation (US), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Australian Research Council, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), NOMAD
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Cervera Villanueva, Anselmo Gómez Cadenas, Juan José Hernando, J. 2013 A precision measurement of charm dimuon production in neutrino interactions from the NOMAD experiment Nuclear Physics B 876 2 339 375
Nucl.Phys.
Nuclear Physics B
Nuclear Physics B, 2013, 876, pp.339-375. ⟨10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2013.08.021⟩
RODERIC. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia
Nucl. Phys.
Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier, 2013, 876, pp.339-375. ⟨10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2013.08.021⟩
ISSN: 0550-3213
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2013.08.021⟩
Popis: We present our new measurement of the cross-section for charm dimuon production in neutrino iron interactions based upon the full statistics collected by the NOMAD experiment. After background subtraction we observe 15 344 charm dimuon events, providing the largest sample currently available. The analysis exploits the large inclusive charged current sample - about 9 x 10(6) events after all analysis cuts - and the high resolution NOMAD detector to constrain the total systematic uncertainty on the ratio of charm dimuon to inclusive Charged Current (CC) cross-sections to similar to 2%. We also perform a fit to the NOMAD data to extract the charm production parameters and the strange quark sea content of the nucleon within the NLO QCD approximation. We obtain a value of m(c)(m(c)) = 1.159 +/- 0.075 GeV/c(2) for the running mass of the charm quark in the (MS) over bar scheme and a strange quark sea suppression factor of kappa(s) = 0.591 +/- 0.019 at Q(2) = 20 GeV2/c(2).
We extend our grateful appreciations to the CERN SPS staff for the magnificent performance of the neutrino beam. The experiment was supported by the following agencies: ARC and DIISR of Australia, IN2P3 and CEA of France, BMBF of Germany, INFN of Italy, JINR and INR of Russia, FNSRS of Switzerland, DOE, NSF, Sloan, and Cottrell Foundations of USA, and VP Research Office of the University of South Carolina. This work was partially supported by the University of South Carolina, by the DOE grant DE-FG02-95ER40910, by the Russian Federal grant 02.740.11.5220 and MK-432.2013.2, and JINR grant 13-201-01.
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