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Measurement of the Charm Production Cross Section in gamma gamma Collisions at LEP
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EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH
CERN-EP/2000-155
December 22, 2000
Measurement of the Charm Production Cross Section
in γγ Collisions at LEP
The L3 Collaboration
Abstract
Open charm production in γγ collisions is studied with data collected at e+e?
centre-of-mass energies from 189 GeV to 202 GeV corresponding to a total inte-
grated luminosity of 410 pb?1. The charm cross section σ(γγ → cc?X) is measured
for the first time as a function of the two-photon centre-of-mass energy in the in-
terval from 5 GeV to 70 GeV and is compared to NLO QCD calculations.
Submitted to Phys. Lett. B
1 Introduction
The cross section for the interaction of two quasi-real photons is described by three components.
The first “soft” component is described by the Vector Dominance Model (VDM), parametrized
in hadronic phenomenology by Regge poles. A second “direct” component, the point like
reaction γγ → qq?, can be calculated in QED. Finally, there is a “hard component” (resolved or
anomalous QCD component) which requires knowledge of the quark and gluon parton density
functions of the photon. The direct and hard contributions to two-photon interactions can
be measured in open heavy flavour production. In this case a hard physical scale is given
by the c- or b-quark mass. At LEP energies, the direct and single resolved processes, shown
in Figure 1, are predicted to give comparable contributions to the charm production cross
section [1], whereas at low energies the direct process dominates. The main contribution to
the resolved photon cross section is the photon-gluon fusion process γg → cc?. Contributions to
charm production arising from VDM processes and from doubly resolved processes are expected
to be small [1].
This letter presents the measurement of the γγ → cc?X cross section as a function of the
two-photon centre-of-mass energy Wγγ in the interval 5 GeV ≤ Wγγ ≤ 70 GeV. The data
correspond to a total integrat
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