Measurement of inclusive electron cross section in $\gamma \gamma$ collisions at TRISTAN

Abstract

We have studied open charm production in $\gamma \gamma$ collisions with the TOPAZ detector at the TRISTAN $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collider. In this study, charm quarks were identified by electrons (and positrons) from semi-leptonic decays of charmed hadrons. The data corresponded to an integrated luminosity of 95.3 pb${}^{-1}$ at a center-of-mass energy of 58 GeV. The results are presented as the cross sections of inclusive electron production in $\gamma \gamma$ collisions with an anti-tag condition, as well as the subprocess cross sections, which correspond to resolved-photon processes. The latter were measured by using a sub-sample with remnant jets. A comparison with various theoretical predictions based on direct and resolved-photon processes showed that our data prefer that with relatively large gluon contents in a photon at small $x(x\le 0.1)$, with the next-to-leading order correction, and with a charm-quark mass of 1.3 GeV.

26 pages, Latex format (article), 5 figures included, to be published in Phys. Lett. B