H1prelim-05-077

Study of Jet Shapes in Charm Photoproduction at HERA

Reference M. Martisikova, presented at DIS 2005, Spring 2005
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Abstract Charm dijet events are investigated in the photoproduction kinematic range in $ep$ collisions at HERA. The data were collected with the H1 Experiment in the years 1999-2000 at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 48 pb-1. One jet is tagged by a muon as being initiated by a charm quark. In order to shed light on the production mechanism of charm events in $ep$ collisions the shape of the other jet is studied to distinguish if it is initiated by a quark or a gluon. The jet shapes are measured as function of kinematic variables such as the transverse momentum, energy and pseudorapidity of the jet and the quantity x_\gamma^{obs}. The shapes are found to be well described by the leading order plus parton shower Monte Carlo simulation PYTHIA in the region of large x_\gamma^{obs}, where according to the simulation the jets are dominantly charm quark initiated. Deviations between data and PYTHIA are observed for small x_\gamma^{obs}, where resolved photon events are expected to contribute significantly and more gluon jets are expected. No such deviations are observed in a dijet photoproduction sample without muon requirements, which is dominated by light quark production.
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