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Measurement of high-pT single electrons from heavy-flavor decays in p+p collisions at s=200GeV

  • A. Adare
  • , S. Afanasiev
  • , C. Aidala
  • , N. N. Ajitanand
  • , Y. Akiba
  • , H. Al-Bataineh
  • , J. Alexander
  • , K. Aoki
  • , L. Aphecetche
  • , R. Armendariz
  • , S. H. Aronson
  • , J. Asai
  • , E. T. Atomssa
  • , R. Averbeck
  • , T. C. Awes
  • , B. Azmoun
  • , V. Babintsev
  • , G. Baksay
  • , L. Baksay
  • , A. Baldisseri
  • K. N. Barish, P. D. Barnes, B. Bassalleck, S. Bathe, S. Batsouli, V. Baublis, A. Bazilevsky, S. Belikov, R. Bennett, Y. Berdnikov, A. A. Bickley, J. G. Boissevain, H. Borel, K. Boyle, M. L. Brooks, H. Buesching, V. Bumazhnov, G. Bunce, S. Butsyk, S. Campbell, B. S. Chang, J. L. Charvet, S. Chernichenko, J. Chiba, C. Y. Chi, M. Chiu, I. J. Choi, T. Chujo, P. Chung, A. Churyn, V. Cianciolo, C. R. Cleven, B. A. Cole, M. P. Comets, P. Constantin, M. Csanád, T. Csórgo, T. Dahms, K. Das, G. David, M. B. Deaton, K. Dehmelt, H. Delagrange, A. Denisov, D. d'Enterria, A. Deshpande, E. J. Desmond, O. Dietzsch, A. Dion, M. Donadelli, O. Drapier, A. Drees, A. K. Dubey, A. Durum, V. Dzhordzhadze, Y. V. Efremenko, J. Egdemir, F. Ellinghaus, W. S. Emam, A. Enokizono, H. En'yo, S. Esumi, K. O. Eyser, D. E. Fields, M. Finger, F. Fleuret, S. L. Fokin, Z. Fraenkel, A. Franz, J. Frantz, A. D. Frawley, K. Fujiwara, Y. Fukao, T. Fusayasu, S. Gadrat, I. Garishvili, A. Glenn, H. Gong, M. Gonin, J. Gosset, Y. Goto, R. Granier de Cassagnac, N. Grau, S. V. Greene, M. Grosse Perdekamp, T. Gunji, H. Å Gustafsson, T. Hachiya, A. Hadj Henni, C. Haegemann, J. S. Haggerty, H. Hamagaki, R. Han, H. Harada, E. P. Hartouni, K. Haruna, E. Haslum, R. Hayano, M. Heffner, T. K. Hemmick, T. Hester, X. He, H. Hiejima, J. C. Hill, R. Hobbs, M. Hohlmann, W. Holzmann, K. Homma, B. Hong, T. Horaguchi, D. Hornback, T. Ichihara, K. Imai, M. Inaba, Y. Inoue, D. Isenhower, L. Isenhower, M. Ishihara, T. Isobe, M. Issah, A. Isupov, B. V. Jacak, J. Jia, J. Jin, O. Jinnouchi, B. M. Johnson, K. S. Joo, D. Jouan, F. Kajihara, S. Kametani, N. Kamihara, J. Kamin, M. Kaneta, J. H. Kang, H. Kanou, H. Kano, D. Kawall, A. V. Kazantsev, A. Khanzadeev, J. Kikuchi, D. H. Kim, D. J. Kim, E. Kim, E. Kinney, A. Kiss, E. Kistenev, A. Kiyomichi, J. Klay, C. Klein-Boesing, L. Kochenda, V. Kochetkov, B. Komkov, M. Konno, D. Kotchetkov, A. Kozlov, A. Král, A. Kravitz, J. Kubart, G. J. Kunde, N. Kurihara, K. Kurita, M. J. Kweon, Y. Kwon, G. S. Kyle, R. Lacey, Y. S. Lai, J. G. Lajoie, A. Lebedev, D. M. Lee, M. K. Lee, T. Lee, M. J. Leitch, M. A.L. Leite, B. Lenzi, T. Liška, A. Litvinenko, M. X. Liu, X. Li, B. Love, D. Lynch, C. F. Maguire, Y. I. Makdisi, A. Malakhov, M. D. Malik, V. I. Manko, Y. Mao, L. Mašek, H. Masui, F. Matathias, M. McCumber, P. L. McGaughey, Y. Miake, P. Mikeš, K. Miki, T. E. Miller, A. Milov, S. Mioduszewski, M. Mishra, J. T. Mitchell, M. Mitrovski, A. Morreale, D. P. Morrison, T. V. Moukhanova, D. Mukhopadhyay, J. Murata, S. Nagamiya, Y. Nagata, J. L. Nagle, M. Naglis, I. Nakagawa, Y. Nakamiya, T. Nakamura, K. Nakano, J. Newby, M. Nguyen, B. E. Norman, A. S. Nyanin, E. O'Brien, S. X. Oda, C. A. Ogilvie, H. Ohnishi, H. Okada, K. Okada, M. Oka, O. O. Omiwade, A. Oskarsson, M. Ouchida, K. Ozawa, R. Pak, D. Pal, A. P.T. Palounek, V. Pantuev, V. Papavassiliou, J. Park, W. J. Park, S. F. Pate, H. Pei, J. C. Peng, H. Pereira, V. Peresedov, D. Y. Peressounko, C. Pinkenburg, M. L. Purschke, A. K. Purwar, H. Qu, J. Rak, A. Rakotozafindrabe, I. Ravinovich, K. F. Read, S. Rembeczki, M. Reuter, K. Reygers, V. Riabov, Y. Riabov, G. Roche, A. Romana, M. Rosati, S. S.E. Rosendahl, P. Rosnet, P. Rukoyatkin, V. L. Rykov, B. Sahlmueller, N. Saito, T. Sakaguchi, S. Sakai, H. Sakata, V. Samsonov, S. Sato, S. Sawada, J. Seele, R. Seidl, V. Semenov, R. Seto, D. Sharma, I. Shein, A. Shevel, T. A. Shibata, K. Shigaki, M. Shimomura, K. Shoji, A. Sickles, C. L. Silva, D. Silvermyr, C. Silvestre, K. S. Sim, C. P. Singh, V. Singh, S. Skutnik, M. Slunečka, 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, C. Suire, J. Sziklai, T. Tabaru, S. Takagi, E. M. Takagui, A. Taketani, Y. Tanaka, K. Tanida, M. J. Tannenbaum, A. Taranenko, P. Tarján, T. L. Thomas, M. Togawa, A. Toia, J. Tojo, L. Tomášek, H. Torii, R. S. Towell, V. N. Tram, I. Tserruya, Y. Tsuchimoto, C. Vale, H. Valle, H. W. van Hecke, J. Velkovska, R. Vertesi, A. A. Vinogradov, M. Virius, V. Vrba, E. Vznuzdaev, M. Wagner, D. Walker, X. R. Wang, Y. Watanabe, J. Wessels, S. N. White, D. Winter, C. L. Woody, M. Wysocki, W. Xie, Y. Yamaguchi, A. Yanovich, Z. Yasin, J. Ying, S. Yokkaichi, G. R. Young, I. Younus, I. E. Yushmanov, W. A. Zajc, O. Zaudtke, C. Zhang, S. Zhou, J. Zimányi, L. Zolin
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Columbia University
  • Stony Brook University
  • RIKEN
  • Brookhaven National Lab
  • New Mexico State University
  • Kyoto University
  • Nantes Université
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • CNRS-IN2P3
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • Florida Institute of Technology
  • CEA Saclay
  • University of California at Riverside
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • University of New Mexico
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics InstituteGatchina
  • Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
  • Yonsei University
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Georgia State University
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Eötvös Loránd University
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Florida State University
  • Abilene Christian University
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • University of Tsukuba
  • Charles University
  • Russian Research Center
  • Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • University of Tennessee
  • Iowa State University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Lund University
  • Hiroshima University
  • Peking University
  • Korea University
  • Institute of Science Tokyo
  • Rikkyo University
  • Myongji University
  • Waseda University
  • Seoul National University
  • University of Münster
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • China National Nuclear Corporation
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • University of Debrecen

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Abstract

The momentum distribution of electrons from decays of heavy flavor (charm and bottom) for midrapidity |y|<0.35 in p+p collisions at s=200GeV has been measured by the PHENIX experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider over the transverse momentum range 0.3<pT<9GeV/c. Two independent methods have been used to determine the heavy-flavor yields, and the results are in good agreement with each other. A fixed-order-plus-next-to-leading-log perturbative QCD calculation agrees with the data within the theoretical and experimental uncertainties, with the data/theory ratio of 1.71±0.02stat±0.18sys for 0.3<pT<9GeV/c. The total charm production cross section at this energy has also been deduced to be σcc̄= 567±57stat±193sysμb.

Original languageEnglish
Article number252002
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume97
Issue number25
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

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