Author/Authors :
OPAL Collaboration، نويسنده , , G. Abbiendi، نويسنده , , C Ainsley، نويسنده , , P.F. Akesson، نويسنده , , G Alexander، نويسنده , , J Allison، نويسنده , , P Amaral، نويسنده , , G Anagnostou، نويسنده , , K.J. Anderson، نويسنده , , S Arcelli، نويسنده , , S Asai، نويسنده , , D Axen، نويسنده , , G Azuelos، نويسنده , , I Bailey، نويسنده , , E Barberio، نويسنده , , R.J. Barlow، نويسنده , , R.J Batley، نويسنده , , P Bechtle، نويسنده , , T Behnke، نويسنده , , K.W. Bell، نويسنده , , et al.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The production of charm quarks is studied in deep-inelastic electron–photon scattering using data recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at nominal e+e− centre-of-mass energies from 183 to 209 GeV. The charm quarks have been identified by full reconstruction of charged D★ mesons using their decays into D0π with the D0 observed in two decay modes with charged particle final states, Kπ and Kπππ. The cross-section σD★ for production of charged D★ in the reaction e+e−→e+e−D★X is measured in a restricted kinematical region using two bins in Bjorken x, 0.00140.1 the perturbative QCD calculation at next-to-leading order agrees perfectly with the measured cross-section. For x<0.1 the measured cross-section is 43.8±14.3±6.3±2.8 pb with a next-to-leading order prediction of 17.0+2.9−2.3 pb.
