Precise measurement of dimuon production cross sections inνμFeandν¯μFedeep inelastic scattering at the Fermilab Tevatron

2001/02/26 by NuTeV Collaboration, M. Goncharov, T. Adams +43 · 261 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Charm (quantum number) #Deep inelastic scattering #Fermilab #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Inelastic scattering #Large Hadron Collider #Muon #Nuclear physics #Nucleon #Optics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Production (economics) #Scattering #Superconducting Materials and Applications #Tevatron #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.64.112006

published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 64(11) (American Physical Society) · 31 pages, 12 figures, LateX aps style Submitted to PRD

arxiv created 2001/02/26 · openalex publication_date 2001/11/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present measurements of the semi-inclusive cross sections for \ensuremathν_\ensuremathμ- and \ensuremathν_\ensuremathμ-nucleon deep inelastic scattering interactions with two oppositely charged muons in the final state. These events dominantly arise from the production of a charm quark during the scattering process. The measurement was obtained from the analysis of 5102 \ensuremathν_\ensuremathμ-induced and 1458 \ensuremathν_\ensuremathμ-induced events collected with the NuTeV detector exposed to a sign-selected beam at the Fermilab Tevatron. We also extract a cross-section measurement from a reanalysis of 5030 \ensuremathν_\ensuremathμ-induced and 1060 \ensuremathν_\ensuremathμ-induced events collected from the exposure of the same detector to a quad-triplet beam by the Chicago Columbia Fermilab Rochester (CCFR) experiment. The results are combined to obtain the most statistically precise measurement of neutrino-induced dimuon production cross sections to date. These measurements should be of broad use to phenomenologists interested in the dynamics of charm production, the strangeness content of the nucleon, and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element V_cd.

Citations

• Top and bottom squark searches in run II of the Fermilab Tevatron
• Experimental study of opposite-sign dimuons produced in neutrino and antineutrino interactions
• Leptoproduction of charm revisited
• The strange sea density and charm production in deep inelastic charged current processes
• Leptoproduction of heavy quarks. II. A unified QCD formulation of charged and neutral current processes from fixed-target to collider energies
• LEPTO 6.5 — A Monte Carlo generator for deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering
• Search for light-to-heavy quark flavor changing neutral currents inνμNandν¯μNscattering at the Fermilab Tevatron

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