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Measurement of charm and bottom production from semileptonic hadron decays in p+p collisions at s=200GeV

C. Aidala40, Y. Akiba52,53,*, M. Alfred23, V. Andrieux40, N. Apadula28, H. Asano33,52, B. Azmoun7, V. Babintsev24, N. S. Bandara39 et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

N. S. Bandara39, K. N. Barish8, S. Bathe5,53, A. Bazilevsky7, M. Beaumier8, R. Belmont12,46, A. Berdnikov55, Y. Berdnikov55, D. S. Blau32,43, J. S. Bok45, M. L. Brooks35, J. Bryslawskyj5,8, V. Bumazhnov24, S. Campbell13, V. Canoa Roman58, R. Cervantes58, C. Y. Chi13, M. Chiu7, I. J. Choi25, J. B. Choi10,†, Z. Citron63, M. Connors21,53, N. Cronin58, M. Csanád16, T. Csörgő17,64, T. W. Danley47, M. S. Daugherity1, G. David7,15,58, K. DeBlasio44, K. Dehmelt58, A. Denisov24, A. Deshpande7,53,58, E. J. Desmond7, A. Dion58, D. Dixit58, J. H. Do65, A. Drees58, K. A. Drees6, J. M. Durham35, A. Durum24, A. Enokizono52,54, H. En’yo52, S. Esumi61, B. Fadem41, W. Fan58, N. Feege58, D. E. Fields44, M. Finger9, M. Finger, Jr.9, S. L. Fokin32, J. E. Frantz47, A. Franz7, A. D. Frawley20, Y. Fukuda61, C. Gal58, P. Gallus14, E. A. Gamez40, P. Garg3,58, H. Ge58, F. Giordano25, Y. Goto52,53, N. Grau2, S. V. Greene62, M. Grosse Perdekamp25, T. Gunji11, H. Guragain21, T. Hachiya42,52,53, J. S. Haggerty7, K. I. Hahn18, H. Hamagaki11, H. F. Hamilton1, S. Y. Han18,52, J. Hanks58, S. Hasegawa29, T. O. S. Haseler21, X. He21, T. K. Hemmick58, J. C. Hill28, K. Hill12, A. Hodges21, R. S. Hollis8, K. Homma22, B. Hong31, T. Hoshino22, N. Hotvedt28, J. Huang7, S. Huang62, K. Imai29, M. Inaba61, A. Iordanova8, D. Isenhower1, S. Ishimaru42, D. Ivanishchev51, B. V. Jacak58, M. Jezghani21, Z. Ji58, X. Jiang35, B. M. Johnson7,21, D. Jouan49, D. S. Jumper25, J. H. Kang65, D. Kapukchyan8, S. Karthas58, D. Kawall39, A. V. Kazantsev32, V. Khachatryan58, A. Khanzadeev51, C. Kim8,31, E.-J. Kim10, M. Kim52,56, D. Kincses16, E. Kistenev7, J. Klatsky20, P. Kline58, T. Koblesky12, D. Kotov51,55, S. Kudo61, B. Kurgyis16, K. Kurita54, Y. Kwon65, J. G. Lajoie28, A. Lebedev28, S. Lee65, S. H. Lee28,58, M. J. Leitch35, Y. H. Leung58, N. A. Lewis40, X. Li35, S. H. Lim35,65, M. X. Liu35, V.-R. Loggins25, S. Lökös16,17, K. Lovasz15, D. Lynch7, T. Majoros15, Y. I. Makdisi6, M. Makek66, V. I. Manko32, E. Mannel7, M. McCumber35, P. L. McGaughey35, D. McGlinchey12,35, C. McKinney25, M. Mendoza8, W. J. Metzger17, A. C. Mignerey38, A. Milov63, D. K. Mishra4, J. T. Mitchell7, Iu. Mitrankov55, G. Mitsuka30,52,53, S. Miyasaka52,60, S. Mizuno52,61, P. Montuenga25, T. Moon65, D. P. Morrison7, S. I. Morrow62, T. Murakami33,52, J. Murata52,54, K. Nagai60, K. Nagashima22,52, T. Nagashima54, J. L. Nagle12, M. I. Nagy16, I. Nakagawa52,53, K. Nakano52,60, C. Nattrass59, S. Nelson19, T. Niida61, R. Nishitani42, R. Nouicer7,53, T. Novák17,64, N. Novitzky58, A. S. Nyanin32, E. O’Brien7, C. A. Ogilvie28, J. D. Orjuela Koop12, J. D. Osborn40, A. Oskarsson36, G. J. Ottino44, K. Ozawa30,61, V. Pantuev26, V. Papavassiliou45, J. S. Park56, S. Park52,56,58, S. F. Pate45, M. Patel28, W. Peng62, D. V. Perepelitsa7,12, G. D. N. Perera45, D. Yu. Peressounko32, C. E. PerezLara58, J. Perry28, R. Petti7, M. Phipps7,25, C. Pinkenburg7, R. P. Pisani7, A. Pun47, M. L. Purschke7, P. V. Radzevich55, K. F. Read48,59, D. Reynolds57, V. Riabov43,51, Y. Riabov51,55, D. Richford5, T. Rinn28, S. D. Rolnick8, M. Rosati28, Z. Rowan5, J. Runchey28, A. S. Safonov55, T. Sakaguchi7, H. Sako29, V. Samsonov43,51, M. Sarsour21, S. Sato29, C. Y. Scarlett19, B. Schaefer62, B. K. Schmoll59, K. Sedgwick8, R. Seidl52,53, A. Sen28,59, R. Seto8, A. Sexton38, D. Sharma58, I. Shein24, T.-A. Shibata52,60, K. Shigaki22, M. Shimomura28,42, T. Shioya61, P. Shukla4, A. Sickles25, C. L. Silva35, D. Silvermyr36, B. K. Singh3, C. P. Singh3, V. Singh3, M. J. Skoby40, M. Slunečka9, K. L. Smith20, M. Snowball35, R. A. Soltz34, W. E. Sondheim35, S. P. Sorensen59, I. V. Sourikova7, P. W. Stankus48, S. P. Stoll7, T. Sugitate22, A. Sukhanov7, T. Sumita52, J. Sun58, Z. Sun15, S. Suzuki42, J. Sziklai64, K. Tanida29,53,56, M. J. Tannenbaum7, S. Tarafdar62,63, A. Taranenko43, G. Tarnai15, R. Tieulent21,37, A. Timilsina28, T. Todoroki53,61, M. Tomášek14, C. L. Towell1, R. S. Towell1, I. Tserruya63, Y. Ueda22, B. Ujvari15, H. W. van Hecke35, J. Velkovska62, M. Virius14, V. Vrba14,27, N. Vukman66, X. R. Wang45,53, Z. Wang5, Y. S. Watanabe11, C. P. Wong21, C. L. Woody7, C. Xu45, Q. Xu62, L. Xue21, S. Yalcin58, Y. L. Yamaguchi53,58, H. Yamamoto61, A. Yanovich24, J. H. Yoo31,53, I. Yoon56, H. Yu45,50, I. E. Yushmanov32, W. A. Zajc13, A. Zelenski6, Y. Zhai28, S. Zharko55, and L. Zou8 (PHENIX Collaboration)

  • 1Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57197, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
  • 4Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay 400 085, India
  • 5Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, New York, 10010 USA
  • 6Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
  • 7Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
  • 8University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
  • 9Charles University, Ovocný trh 5, Praha 1, 116 36, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 10Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, 561-756, Korea
  • 11Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
  • 12University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
  • 13Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA and Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York 10533, USA
  • 14Czech Technical University, Zikova 4, 166 36 Prague 6, Czech Republic
  • 15Debrecen University, H-4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Hungary
  • 16ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Hungary
  • 17Eszterházy Károly University, Károly Róbert Campus, H-3200 Gyöngyös, Mátrai út 36, Hungary
  • 18Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
  • 19Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida 32307, USA
  • 20Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
  • 21Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
  • 22Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
  • 23Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059, USA
  • 24IHEP Protvino, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, 142281, Russia
  • 25University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
  • 26Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
  • 27Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic
  • 28Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
  • 29Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata Shirane, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan
  • 30KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
  • 31Korea University, Seoul, 02841
  • 32National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, 123098 Russia
  • 33Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
  • 34Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
  • 35Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
  • 36Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
  • 37IPNL, CNRS/IN2P3, Univ Lyon, Universit Lyon 1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
  • 38University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 39Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337, USA
  • 40Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
  • 41Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104-5586, USA
  • 42Nara Women’s University, Kita-uoya Nishi-machi Nara 630-8506, Japan
  • 43National Research Nuclear University, MEPhI, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, 115409, Russia
  • 44University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
  • 45New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
  • 46Physics and Astronomy Department, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina 27412, USA
  • 47Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
  • 48Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
  • 49IPN-Orsay, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, BP1, F-91406, Orsay, France
  • 50Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
  • 51PNPI, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300, Russia
  • 52RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
  • 53RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
  • 54Physics Department, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
  • 55Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, 195251 Russia
  • 56Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
  • 57Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, USA
  • 58Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
  • 59University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
  • 60Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
  • 61Tomonaga Center for the History of the Universe, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
  • 62Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
  • 63Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel
  • 64Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Wigner RCP, RMKI) H-1525 Budapest 114, POBox 49, Budapest, Hungary
  • 65Yonsei University, IPAP, Seoul 120-749, Korea
  • 66Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Bijenička c. 32 HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia

  • *PHENIX Collaboration Spokesperson: akiba@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov
  • Deceased.

Phys. Rev. D 99, 092003 – Published 13 May, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.092003

Abstract

Measurements of the differential production of electrons from open-heavy-flavor hadrons with charm- and bottom-quark content in p+p collisions at s=200GeV are presented. The measurements proceed through displaced-vertex analyses of electron tracks from the semileptonic decay of charm and bottom hadrons using the PHENIX silicon-vertex detector. The relative contribution of electrons from bottom decays to inclusive heavy-flavor-electron production is found to be consistent with fixed-order-plus-next-to-leading-log perturbative-QCD calculations within experimental and theoretical uncertainties. These new measurements in p+p collisions provide a precision baseline for comparable forthcoming measurements in A+A collisions.

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