We have measured the probability, (n) over bar(g --> c (c) over tilde), of a gluon splitting into a charm-quark pair using 1.7 million hadronic Z decays collected by the L3 detector. Two independent methods have been applied to events with a three-jet topology. One method relies an tagging charmed hadrons by identifying a lepton in the lowest energy jet. The other method uses a neural network based on global event shape parameters. Combining both methods, we measure (n) over bar(g --> c (c) over bar) = [2.45 +/- 0.29 + 0.53]%. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Measurement of the probability of gluon splitting into charmed quarks in hadronic Z decays / M. Acciarri, P. Achard, O. Adriani, M. Aguilar-Benitez, J. Alcaraz, G. Alemanni, J. Allaby, A. Aloisio, M. G. Alviggi, G. Ambrosi, H. Anderhub, V. P. Andreev, T. Angelescu, F. Anselmo, A. Arefiev, T. Azemoon, T. Aziz, P. Bagnaia, L. Baksay, A. Balandras, et al.. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - ELETTRONICO. - 476:(2000), pp. 243-255. [10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00163-5]

Measurement of the probability of gluon splitting into charmed quarks in hadronic Z decays

ADRIANI, OSCAR;BECATTINI, FRANCESCO;D'ALESSANDRO, RAFFAELLO;
2000

Abstract

We have measured the probability, (n) over bar(g --> c (c) over tilde), of a gluon splitting into a charm-quark pair using 1.7 million hadronic Z decays collected by the L3 detector. Two independent methods have been applied to events with a three-jet topology. One method relies an tagging charmed hadrons by identifying a lepton in the lowest energy jet. The other method uses a neural network based on global event shape parameters. Combining both methods, we measure (n) over bar(g --> c (c) over bar) = [2.45 +/- 0.29 + 0.53]%. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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M. Acciarri;P. Achard;O. Adriani;M. Aguilar-Benitez;J. Alcaraz;G. Alemanni;J. Allaby;A. Aloisio;M. G. Alviggi;G. Ambrosi;H. Anderhub;V. P. ...espandi
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