Measurement of diffractive production of D(*+/-) (2010) mesons in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA

Diffractive production of D(*+/-)(2010) mesons in deep inelastic scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 44.3 pb(-1). Diffractive charm production is identified by the presence of a large rapidity gap in the final state of events in which a D(*+/-) (2010) meson is reconstructed in the decay channel D(*+/-) --> (D(0) --> K(-)pi(+))pi(s)(+) (+ charge conjugate). Differential cross sections when compared with theoretical predictions indicate the importance of gluons in such diffractive interactions. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V All rights reserved. RI De Pasquale, Salvatore/B-9165-2008; Wing, Matthew/C-2169-2008; Bashkirov, Vladimir/A-4818-2008; Doyle, Anthony/C-5889-2009; collins-tooth, christopher/A-9201-2012; Ferrando, James/A-9192-2012; Gladilin, Leonid/B-5226-2011; Golubkov, Yury/E-1643-2012

Diffractive production of D(*+/-)(2010) mesons in deep inelastic scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 44.3 pb(-1). Diffractive charm production is identified by the presence of a large rapidity gap in the final state of events in which a D(*+/-) (2010) meson is reconstructed in the decay channel D(*+/-) --> (D(0) --> K(-)pi(+))pi(s)(+) (+ charge conjugate). Differential cross sections when compared with theoretical predictions indicate the importance of gluons in such diffractive interactions. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V All rights reserved.