Beauty photoproduction measured using decays into muons in dijet events in ep collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=318 GeV

Abstract

The photoproduction of beauty quarks in events with two jets and a muon has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 110 pb${}^{-1}$. The fraction of jets containing b quarks was extracted from the transverse momentum distribution of the muon relative to the closest jet. Differential cross sections for beauty production as a function of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the muon, of the associated jet and of $x_{\gamma }^{jets}$, the fraction of the photon's momentum participating in the hard process, are compared with MC models and QCD predictions made at next-to-leading order. The latter give a good description of the data.

32 pages, 6 tables, 7 figures Table 6 and Figure 7 revised September 2006

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