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Measurement of charm production in neutrino charged-current interactions
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Working Paper
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Kayis-Topaksu, A.; Önengüt, G.; van Dantzig, R.; de Jong, M.; Oldeman, R. G. C.; Güler, M.; Köse, U.; Tolun, P.; Catanesi, M. G.; Muciaccia, M. T.; Winter, K.; Van de Vyver, B.; Vilain, P.; Wilquet, G.; Saitta, B.; Di Capua, E.; Ogawa, S.; Shibuya, H.; Hristova, I. R.; Kawamura, T.; Kolev, D.; Meinhard, H.; Panman, J.; Rozanov, A.; Tsenov, R.; Uiterwijk, J. W. E.; Zucchelli, P.; Goldberg, J.; Chikawa, M.; Song, J. S.; Yoon, C. S.; Kodama, K.; Ushida, N.; Aoki, S.; Hara, T.; Delbar, T.; Favart, D.; Grégoire, G.; Kalinin, S.; Makhlioueva, I.; Artamonov, A.; Gorbunov, P.; Khovansky, V.; Shamanov, V.; Tsukerman, I.; Bruski, N.; Frekers, D.; Hoshino, K.; Kawada, J.; Komatsu, M.; Miyanishi, M.; Nakamura, M.; Nakano, T.; Narita, K.; Niu, K.; Niwa, K.; Nonaka, N.; Sato, O.; Toshito, T.; Buontempo, S.; Cocco, A. G.; D'Ambrosio, N.; De Lellis, G.; De Rosa, G.; Di Capua, F.; Fiorillo, G.; Marotta, A.; Messina, M.; Migliozzi, P.; Lavina, L. Scotto; Strolin, P.; Tioukov, V.; Okusawa, T.; Dore, U.; Loverre, P. F.; Ludovici, L.; Rosa, G.; Santacesaria, R.; Satta, A.; Spada, F. R.; Barbuto, E.; Bozza, C.; Grella, G.; Romano, G.; Sirignano, C.; Sorrentino, S.; Sato, Y.; Tezuka, I.
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The nuclear emulsion target of the CHORUS detector was exposed to the wide-band neutrino beam of the CERN SPS of 27 GeV average neutrino energy from 1994 to 1997. In total about 100000 charged-current neutrino interactions with at least one identified muon were located in the emulsion target and fully reconstructed, using newly developed automated scanning systems. Charmed particles were searched for by a program recognizing particle decays. The observation of the decay in nuclear emulsion makes it possible to select a sample with very low background and minimal kinematical bias. 2013 charged-current interactions with a charmed hadron candidate in the final state were selected and confirmed through visual inspection. The charm production rate induced by neutrinos relative to the charged-current cross-section is measured to be sigma(nu_mu N -> mu- C X)/sigma(CC) = (5.75 +-0.32 stat +-0.30 syst)%. The charm production cross-section as a function of the neutrino energy is also obtained. The results are in good agreement with previous measurements. The charm-quark hadronization produces the following charmed hadrons with relative fractions (in %): f_Dzero = 43.7+-4.5, f_Lambda_c^plus = 19.2+-4.2, f_Dplus = 25.3+-4.2, and f_D_splus = 11.8+-4.7.
Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures
Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures