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Measurement of single muons at forward rapidity in p+p collisions at s=200GeV and implications for charm production

  • S. S. Adler
  • , S. Afanasiev
  • , C. Aidala
  • , N. N. Ajitanand
  • , Y. Akiba
  • , J. Alexander
  • , R. Amirikas
  • , L. Aphecetche
  • , S. H. Aronson
  • , R. Averbeck
  • , T. C. Awes
  • , R. Azmoun
  • , V. Babintsev
  • , A. Baldisseri
  • , K. N. Barish
  • , P. D. Barnes
  • , B. Bassalleck
  • , S. Bathe
  • , S. Batsouli
  • , V. Baublis
  • A. Bazilevsky, S. Belikov, Y. Berdnikov, S. Bhagavatula, J. G. Boissevain, H. Borel, S. Borenstein, M. L. Brooks, D. S. Brown, N. Bruner, D. Bucher, H. Buesching, V. Bumazhnov, G. Bunce, J. M. Burward-Hoy, S. Butsyk, X. Camard, J. S. Chai, P. Chand, W. C. Chang, S. Chernichenko, C. Y. Chi, J. Chiba, M. Chiu, I. J. Choi, J. Choi, R. K. Choudhury, T. Chujo, V. Cianciolo, Y. Cobigo, B. A. Cole, P. Constantin, D. D'Enterria, G. David, H. Delagrange, A. Denisov, A. Deshpande, E. J. Desmond, A. Devismes, O. Dietzsch, O. Drapier, A. Drees, K. A. Drees, R. Du Rietz, A. Durum, D. Dutta, Y. V. Efremenko, K. El Chenawi, A. Enokizono, H. En'yo, S. Esumi, L. Ewell, D. E. Fields, F. Fleuret, S. L. Fokin, B. D. Fox, Z. Fraenkel, J. E. Frantz, A. Franz, A. D. Frawley, S. Y. Fung, S. Garpman, T. K. Ghosh, A. Glenn, G. Gogiberidze, M. Gonin, J. Gosset, Y. Goto, R. Granier De Cassagnac, N. Grau, S. V. Greene, M. Grosse Perdekamp, W. Guryn, H. Å Gustafsson, T. Hachiya, J. S. Haggerty, H. Hamagaki, A. G. Hansen, E. P. Hartouni, M. Harvey, R. Hayano, N. Hayashi, X. He, M. Heffner, T. K. Hemmick, J. M. Heuser, M. Hibino, J. C. Hill, W. Holzmann, K. Homma, B. Hong, A. Hoover, D. Hornback, T. Ichihara, V. V. Ikonnikov, K. Imai, D. Isenhower, M. Ishihara, M. Issah, A. Isupov, B. V. Jacak, W. Y. Jang, Y. Jeong, J. Jia, O. Jinnouchi, B. M. Johnson, S. C. Johnson, K. S. Joo, D. Jouan, S. Kametani, N. Kamihara, J. H. Kang, S. S. Kapoor, K. Katou, S. Kelly, B. Khachaturov, A. Khanzadeev, J. Kikuchi, D. H. Kim, D. J. Kim, D. W. Kim, E. Kim, G. B. Kim, H. J. Kim, E. Kistenev, A. Kiyomichi, K. Kiyoyama, C. Klein-Boesing, H. Kobayashi, L. Kochenda, V. Kochetkov, D. Koehler, T. Kohama, M. Kopytine, D. Kotchetkov, A. Kozlov, P. J. Kroon, C. H. Kuberg, K. Kurita, Y. Kuroki, M. J. Kweon, Y. Kwon, G. S. Kyle, R. Lacey, V. Ladygin, J. G. Lajoie, A. Lebedev, S. Leckey, D. M. Lee, S. Lee, M. J. Leitch, X. H. Li, H. Lim, A. Litvinenko, M. X. Liu, Y. Liu, C. F. Maguire, Y. I. Makdisi, A. Malakhov, V. I. Manko, Y. Mao, G. Martinez, M. D. Marx, H. Masui, F. Matathias, T. Matsumoto, P. L. McGaughey, E. Melnikov, F. Messer, Y. Miake, J. Milan, T. E. Miller, A. Milov, S. Mioduszewski, R. E. Mischke, G. C. Mishra, J. T. Mitchell, A. K. Mohanty, D. P. Morrison, J. M. Moss, F. Mühlbacher, D. Mukhopadhyay, M. Muniruzzaman, J. Murata, S. Nagamiya, J. L. Nagle, T. Nakamura, B. K. Nandi, M. Nara, J. Newby, P. Nilsson, A. S. Nyanin, J. Nystrand, E. O'Brien, C. A. Ogilvie, H. Ohnishi, I. D. Ojha, K. Okada, M. Ono, V. Onuchin, A. Oskarsson, I. Otterlund, K. Oyama, K. Ozawa, D. Pal, A. P.T. Palounek, V. Pantuev, V. Papavassiliou, J. Park, A. Parmar, S. F. Pate, T. Peitzmann, J. C. Peng, V. Peresedov, C. Pinkenburg, R. P. Pisani, F. Plasil, M. L. Purschke, A. K. Purwar, J. Rak, I. Ravinovich, K. F. Read, M. Reuter, K. Reygers, V. Riabov, Y. Riabov, G. Roche, A. Romana, M. Rosati, P. Rosnet, S. S. Ryu, M. E. Sadler, N. Saito, T. Sakaguchi, M. Sakai, S. Sakai, V. Samsonov, L. Sanfratello, R. Santo, H. D. Sato, S. Sato, S. Sawada, Y. Schutz, V. Semenov, R. Seto, M. R. Shaw, T. K. Shea, T. A. Shibata, K. Shigaki, T. Shiina, C. L. Silva, D. Silvermyr, K. S. Sim, C. P. Singh, V. Singh, M. Sivertz, A. Soldatov, R. A. Soltz, W. E. Sondheim, S. P. Sorensen, I. V. Sourikova, F. Staley, P. W. Stankus, E. Stenlund, M. Stepanov, A. Ster, S. P. Stoll, T. Sugitate, J. P. Sullivan, E. M. Takagui, A. Taketani, M. Tamai, K. H. Tanaka, Y. Tanaka, K. Tanida, M. J. Tannenbaum, P. Tarján, J. D. Tepe, T. L. Thomas, J. Tojo, H. Torii, R. S. Towell, I. Tserruya, H. Tsuruoka, S. K. Tuli, H. Tydesjö, N. Tyurin, H. W. Van Hecke, J. Velkovska, M. Velkovsky, V. Veszprémi, L. Villatte, A. A. Vinogradov, M. A. Volkov, E. Vznuzdaev, X. R. Wang, Y. Watanabe, S. N. White, F. K. Wohn, C. L. Woody, W. Xie, Y. Yang, A. Yanovich, S. Yokkaichi, G. R. Young, I. E. Yushmanov, W. A. Zajc, C. Zhang, S. Zhou, S. J. Zhou, L. Zolin
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • Stony Brook University
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
  • Florida State University
  • Université de Nantes
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • University of California, Riverside
  • MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • University of New Mexico
  • University of Münster
  • Columbia University
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
  • Riken BNL Research Center
  • Iowa State University
  • St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
  • New Mexico State University
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Cyclotron Application Laboratory
  • Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
  • Academia Sinica, Institute Of Physics
  • Yonsei University
  • Gangneung-Wonju National University
  • University of São Paulo
  • Lund University
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Hiroshima University
  • University of Tsukuba
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
  • University of Tennessee
  • University of Tokyo
  • Georgia State University
  • Waseda University
  • Korea University
  • Kyoto University
  • Abilene Christian University
  • Myongji University
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Seoul National University
  • Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
  • China Institute of Atomic Energy
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • Wigner Research Centre for Physics
  • University of Debrecen

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Abstract

Muon production at forward rapidity (1.5≤|η|≤1.8) has been measured by the PHENIX experiment over the transverse momentum range 1≤pT≤3GeV/c in s=200GeV p+p collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. After statistically subtracting contributions from light hadron decays an excess remains which is attributed to the semileptonic decays of hadrons carrying heavy flavor, i.e. charm quarks or, at high pT, bottom quarks. The resulting muon spectrum from heavy flavor decays is compared to PYTHIA and a next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculation. PYTHIA is used to determine the charm quark spectrum that would produce the observed muon excess. The corresponding differential cross section for charm quark production at forward rapidity is determined to be dσcc̄/dy|y=1.6=0.243±0.013(stat.) ±0.105(datasyst.)+0.049-0.087(PYTHIAsyst.)mb.

Original languageEnglish
Article number092002
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume76
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Nov 2007

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