1. Measurement of Single Muons at Forward Rapidity in p+p Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV and Implications for Charm Production
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Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Alexander, J., Amirikas, R., Aphecetche, Laurent, Aronson, S.H., Averbeck, R., Awes, T.C., Azmoun, R., Babintsev, V., Baldisseri, A., Barish, K.N., Barnes, P.D., Bassalleck, B., Bathe, S., Batsouli, S., Baublis, V., Bazilevsky, A., Belikov, S., Berdnikov, Y., Bhagavatula, S., Boissevain, J.G., Borel, H., Borenstein, S., Brooks, M.L., Brown, D.S., Bruner, N., Bucher, D., Buesching, H., Bumazhnov, V., Bunce, G., Burward-Hoy, J.M., Butsyk, S., Camard, X., Chai, J.-S., Chand, P., Chang, W.C., Chernichenko, S., Chi, C.Y., Chiba, J., Chiu, M., Choi, I.J., Choi, J., Choudhury, R.K., Chujo, T., Cianciolo, V., Cobigo, Y., Cole, B.A., Constantin, P., D'Enterria, D., David, G., Delagrange, H., Denisov, A., Deshpande, A., Desmond, E.J., Devismes, A., Dietzsch, O., Drapier, O., Drees, A., Drees, K.A., Durum, A., Dutta, D., Efremenko, Y.V., El Chenawi, K., Enokizono, A., En'Yo, H., Esumi, S., Ewell, L., Fields, D.E., Fleuret, F., Fokin, S.L., Fox, B.D., Fraenkel, Z., Frantz, J.E., Franz, A., Frawley, A.D., Fung, S.-Y., Garpman, S., Ghosh, T.K., Glenn, A., Gogiberidze, G., Gonin, M., Gosset, J., Goto, Y., Granier De Cassagnac, R., Grau, N., Greene, S.V., Grosse Perdekamp, M., Guryn, W., Gustafsson, H.-A., Hachiya, T., Haggerty, J.S., Hamagaki, H., Hansen, A.G., Hartouni, E.P., Harvey, M., Hayano, R., Hayashi, N., He, X., Heffner, M., Hemmick, T.K., Heuser, J.M., Hibino, M., Hill, J.C., Holzmann, W., Homma, K., Hong, B., Hoover, A., Hornback, D., Ichihara, T., Ikonnikov, V.V., Imai, K., Isenhower, D., Ishihara, M., Issah, M., Isupov, A., Jacak, B.V., Jang, W.Y., Jeong, Y., Jia, J., Jinnouchi, O., Johnson, B.M., Johnson, S.C., Joo, K.S., Jouan, D., Kametani, S., Kamihara, N., Kang, J.H., Kapoor, S.S., Katou, K., Kelly, Steven, Khachaturov, B., Khanzadeev, A., Kikuchi, J., Kim, D.H., Kim, D.J., Kim, D.W., Kim, E., Kim, G.-B., Kim, H.J., Kistenev, E., Kiyomichi, A., Kiyoyama, K., Klein-Boesing, C., Kobayashi, H., Kochenda, L., Kochetkov, V., Koehler, D., Kohama, T., Kopytine, M., Kotchetkov, D., Kozlov, A., Kroon, P.J., Kuberg, C.H., Kurita, K., Kuroki, Y., Kweon, M.J., Kwon, Y., Kyle, G.S., Lacey, R., Ladygin, V., Lajoie, J.G., Lebedev, A., Leckey, S., Lee, D.M., Lee, S., Leitch, M.J., Li, X.H., Lim, H., Litvinenko, A., Liu, M.X., Liu, Yehan, Maguire, C.F., Makdisi, Y.I., Malakhov, A., Manko, V.I., Mao, Y., Martinez Garcia, Gines, Marx, M.D., Masui, H., Matathias, F., Matsumoto, T., McGaughey, P.L., Melnikov, E., Messer, F., Miake, Y., Milan, J., Miller, T.E., Milov, A., Mioduszewski, S., Mischke, R.E., Mishra, G.C., Mitchell, J.T., Mohanty, A.K., Morrison, D.P., Moss, J.M., Muhlbacher, F., Mukhopadhyay, D., Muniruzzaman, M., Murata, J., Nagamiya, S., Nagle, J.L., Nakamura, T., Nandi, B.K., Nara, M., Newby, J., Nilsson, P., Nyanin, A.S., Nystrand, J., O'Brien, E., Ogilvie, C.A., Ohnishi, H., Ojha, I.D., Okada, K., Ono, M., Onuchin, V., Oskarsson, A., Otterlund, I., Oyama, K., Ozawa, K., Pal, D., Palounek, A.P.T., Pantuev, V., Papavassiliou, V., Park, J., Parmar, A., Pate, S.F., Peitzmann, T., Peng, J.-C., Peresedov, V., Pinkenburg, C., Pisani, R.P., Plasil, F., Purschke, M.L., Purwar, A.K., Rak, J., Ravinovich, I., Read, K.F., Reuter, M., Reygers, K., Riabov, V., Riabov, Y., Roche, G., Romana, A., Rosati, M., Rosnet, P., Ryu, S.S., Sadler, M.E., Saito, N., Sakaguchi, T., Sakai, M., Sakai, S., Samsonov, V., Sanfratello, L., Santo, R., Sato, H.D., Sato, S., Sawada, S., Schutz, Y., Semenov, V., Seto, R., Shaw, M.R., Shea, T.K., Shibata, T.-A., Shigaki, K., Shiina, T., Silva, C.L., Silvermyr, D., Sim, K.S., Singh, C.P., Singh, V., Sivertz, M., Soldatov, A., Soltz, R.A., Sondheim, W.E., Sorensen, S.P., Sourikova, I.V., Staley, F., Stankus, P.W., Stenlund, E., Stepanov, M., Ster, A., Stoll, S.P., Sugitate, T., Sullivan, J.P., Takagui, E.M., Taketani, A., Tamai, M., Tanaka, K.H., Tanaka, Y., Tanida, K., Tannenbaum, M.J., Tarjan, P., Tepe, J.D., Thomas, T.L., Tojo, J., Torii, H., Towell, R.S., Tserruya, I., Tsuruoka, H., Tuli, S.K., Tydesjo, H., Tyurin, N., Velkovska, J., Velkovsky, M., Veszpremi, V., Villatte, L., Vinogradov, A.A., Volkov, M.A., Vznuzdaev, E., Wang, X.R., Watanabe, Y., White, S.N., Wohn, F.K., Woody, C.L., Xie, W., Yang, Y., Yanovich, A., Yokkaichi, S., Young, G.R., Yushmanov, I.E., Zajc, W.A., Zhang, C., Zhou, S., Zhou, S.J., Zolin, L., Durietz, R., Vanhecke, H.W., Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PHENIX, Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,FOS: Physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,13.85.Qk, 13.20.Fc, 13.20.He, 25.75.Dw ,Nuclear Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
Muon production at forward rapidity (1.5 < |��| < 1.8) has been measured by the PHENIX experiment over the transverse momentum range 1 < p_T \le 3 GeV/c in sqrt(s) = 200 GeV p+p collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. After statistically subtracting contributions from light hadron decays an excess remains which is attributed to the semileptonic decays of hadrons carrying heavy flavor, i.e. charm quarks or, at high p_T, bottom quarks. The resulting muon spectrum from heavy flavor decays is compared to PYTHIA and a next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculation. PYTHIA is used to determine the charm quark spectrum that would produce the observed muon excess. The corresponding differential cross section for charm quark production at forward rapidity is determined to be d��_(c c^bar)/dy|_(y=1.6)=0.243 +/- 0.013 (stat.) +/- 0.105 (data syst.) ^(+0.049)_(-0.087) (PYTHIA syst.) mb., 329 authors, pages text, 18 figures, tables. Submitted to Physical Review D. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html
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- 2007