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New Results on Charm Production at HERA

Uri KarshonH1 CollaborationZeus Collaboration

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Particle physicsNuclear TheoryGeneral Physics and Astronomystructure function [p]fragmentation [charm]7. Clean energy01 natural sciences0103 physical sciencesProduction (economics)ddc:530Charm (quantum number)violation [scaling]010306 general physicsNuclear ExperimentPhysics010308 nuclear & particles physicsHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyZEUSHERAproduction [charm]DESY HERA Stormass [charm]deep inelastic scattering [electron p]H1High Energy Physics::Experimentcharmdistribution function [gluon]photoproduction [charmed meson]experimental results

description

The copious production of charm quarks at HERA yielded measure- ments of the charm contribution to the proton structure and of the charm mass and fragmentation parameters of charmed hadrons. Several measure- ments of charm production in deep inelastic scattering from the H1 and ZEUS collaborations as well as combined data are presented. They provide a powerful vindication of the form of the gluon density in the proton de- rived from scaling violations of inclusive deep inelastic scattering data. A QCD fit to the charm data leads to a measurement of the charm mass and provides precise predictions e.g. for W and Z production at the LHC. In ad- dition, charm fragmentation fractions in photoproduction to ground state charm hadrons are compared to e + e

10.5506/aphyspolbsupp.7.511https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/205582