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Measurement of anti-deuteron photoproduction and a search for heavy stable charged particles at HERA

  • A. Aktas
  • , V. Andreev
  • , T. Anthonis
  • , A. Asmone
  • , A. Babaev
  • , S. Backovic
  • , J. Bähr
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , S. Baumgartner
  • , J. Becker
  • , M. Beckingham
  • , O. Behnke
  • , O. Behrendt
  • , A. Belousov
  • , Ch Berger
  • , N. Berger
  • , T. Berndt
  • , J. C. Bizot
  • J. Böhme, M. O. Boenig, V. Boudry, J. Bracinik, V. Brisson, H. B. Bröker, D. P. Brown, D. Bruncko, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, S. Caron, F. Cassol-Brunner, K. Cerny, V. Chekelian, C. Collard, J. G. Contreras, Y. R. Coppens, J. A. Coughlan, B. E. Cox, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, B. Delcourt, R. Demirchyan, A. de Roeck, K. Desch, E. A. de Wolf, C. Diaconu, J. Dingfelder, V. Dodonov, A. Dubak, C. Duprel, G. Eckerlin, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, M. Ellerbrock, E. Elsen, M. Erdmann, W. Erdmann, P. J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Ferencei, M. Fleischer, P. Fleischmann, Y. H. Fleming, G. Flucke, G. Flügge, A. Fomenko, I. Foresti, J. Formánek, G. Franke, G. Frising, E. Gabathuler, K. Gabathuler, E. Garutti, J. Garvey, J. Gayler, R. Gerhards, C. Gerlich, S. Ghazaryan, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, S. Gorbounov, C. Grab, H. Grässler, T. Greenshaw, M. Gregori, G. Grindhammer, C. Gwilliam, D. Haidt, L. Hajduk, J. Haller, M. Hansson, G. Heinzelmann, R. C.W. Henderson, H. Henschel, O. Henshaw, R. Heremans, G. Herrera, I. Herynek, R. D. Heuer, M. Hildebrandt, K. H. Hiller, P. Höting, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, A. Hovhannisyan, M. Ibbotson, M. Ismail, M. Jacquet, L. Janauschek, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, H. Jung, D. Kant, M. Kapichine, M. Karlsson, J. Katzy, N. Keller, J. Kennedy, I. R. Kenyon, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, T. Klimkovich, T. Kluge, G. Knies, A. Knutsson, B. Koblitz, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, R. Koutouev, A. Kropivnitskaya, J. Kroseberg, J. Kückens, T. Kuhr, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, T. Laštovička, P. Laycock, A. Lebedev, B. Leißner, R. Lemrani, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, L. Lindfeld, K. Lipka, B. List, E. Lobodzinska, N. Loktionova, R. Lopez-Fernandez, V. Lubimov, H. Lueders, D. Lüke, T. Lux, L. Lytkin, A. Makankine, N. Malden, E. Malinovski, S. Mangano, P. Marage, J. Marks, R. Marshall, M. Martisikova, H. U. Martyn, S. J. Maxfield, D. Meer, A. Mehta, K. Meier, A. B. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, S. Michine, S. Mikocki, I. Milcewicz, D. Milstead, A. Mohamed, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, I. Morozov, J. V. Morris, M. U. Mozer, K. Müller, P. Murín, V. Nagovizin, B. Naroska, J. Naumann, Th Naumann, P. R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, A. Nikiforov, D. Nikitin, G. Nowak, M. Nozicka, R. Oganezov, B. Olivier, J. E. Olsson, G. Ossoskov, D. Ozerov, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, M. Peez, E. Perez, A. Perieanu, A. Petrukhin, D. Pitzl, R. Plačakyte, R. Pöschl, B. Portheault, B. Povh, N. Raicevic, Z. Ratiani, P. Reimer, B. Reisert, A. Rimmer, C. Risler, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, B. Roland, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, Z. Rurikova, S. Rusakov, K. Rybicki, D. P.C. Sankey, E. Sauvan, S. Schätzel, J. Scheins, F. P. Schilling, P. Schleper, S. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, M. Schneider, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, V. Schröder, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, C. Schwanenberger, K. Sedlák, F. Sefkow, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, Y. Sirois, T. Sloan, P. Smirnov, Y. Soloviev, D. South, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, H. Spitzer, R. Stamen, B. Stella, J. Stiewe, I. Strauch, U. Straumann, V. Tchoulakov, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, F. Tomasz, D. Traynor, P. Truöl, G. Tsipolitis, I. Tsurin, J. Turnau, E. Tzamariudaki, A. Uraev, M. Urban, A. Usik, D. Utkin, S. Valkár, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Mechelen, N. van Remortel, A. Vargas Trevino, Y. Vazdik, C. Veelken, A. Vest, S. Vinokurova, V. Volchinski, K. Wacker, J. Wagner, G. Weber, R. Weber, D. Wegener, C. Werner, N. Werner, M. Wessels, B. Wessling, G. G. Winter, C. Wissing, E. E. Woehrling, R. Wolf, E. Wünsch, S. Xella, W. Yan, V. Yeganov, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhokin, H. Zohrabyan, F. Zomer
  • c/o DESY
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Antwerp
  • University Roma Tre
  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • ETH Zurich
  • Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Heidelberg
  • University of Dortmund
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • Institute of Experimental Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Universität Hamburg
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • Yerevan Physics Institute
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • Charles University
  • Dept. Fis. Ap. CINVESTAV
  • University of Birmingham
  • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Liverpool
  • Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
  • Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Paul Scherrer Institut
  • Universität Karlsruhe/Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Lund University
  • Lancaster University
  • CINVESTAV-IPN
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • University of P.J. Šafárik
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

The cross section for anti-deuteron photoproduction is measured at HERA at a mean centre-of-mass energy of W γp = 200 GeV in the range 0.2 < pT/M < 0.7 and |y| < 0.4, where M, pT and y are the mass, transverse momentum and rapidity of the anti-deuteron in the HERA laboratory frame, respectively. The numbers of anti-deuterons per event are found to be similar in photoproduction to those in central proton-proton collisions at the CERN ISR but much lower than those in central Au-Au collisions at RHIC. The coalescence parameter B 2, which characterizes the likelihood of anti-deuteron production, is measured in photoproduction to be 0.010 ± 0.002 ± 0.001, which is much higher than in Au-Au collisions at a similar nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy. No significant production of particles heavier than deuterons is observed and upper limits are set on the photoproduction cross sections for such particles.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)413-423
Number of pages11
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume36
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2004

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