H1prelim-17-071
ZEUS-prel-17-01
H1 and ZEUS

Combination and QCD analysis of beauty and charm production cross section measurements in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA

Reference March 2017
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Contact K. Daum, O. Zeniaev
Abstract Measurements of open beauty and charm production cross sections in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA from the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations are combined. Reduced cross sections for beauty and charm production are obtained in the kinematic range of photon virtuality 2.5 < Q^2 < 2000 GeV^2 and Bjorken scaling variable 0.00003 < x_Bj < 0.05. The combination method accounts for the correlations of the statistical and systematic uncertainties among the different data sets. The combined data are compared to perturbative QCD predictions and used together with the combined inclusive deep inelastic scattering cross sections from HERA to determine the charm and beauty quark masses.
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