Measurement of anti-deuteron photoproduction and a search for heavy stable charged particles at HERA

A. Aktas*, V. Andreev, T. Anthonis, A. Asmone, A. Babaev, S. Backovic, J. Bähr, P. Baranov, E. Barrelet, W. Bartel, S. Baumgartner, J. Becker, M. Beckingham, O. Behnke, O. Behrendt, A. Belousov, Ch Berger, N. Berger, T. Berndt, J. C. BizotJ. Böhme, M. O. Boenig, V. Boudry, J. Bracinik, V. Brisson, H. B. Bröker, D. P. Brown, D. Bruncko, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, S. Caron, F. Cassol-Brunner, K. Cerny, V. Chekelian, C. Collard, J. G. Contreras, Y. R. Coppens, J. A. Coughlan, B. E. Cox, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, B. Delcourt, R. Demirchyan, A. de Roeck, K. Desch, E. A. de Wolf, C. Diaconu, J. Dingfelder, V. Dodonov, A. Dubak, C. Duprel, G. Eckerlin, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, M. Ellerbrock, E. Elsen, M. Erdmann, W. Erdmann, P. J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Ferencei, M. Fleischer, P. Fleischmann, Y. H. Fleming, G. Flucke, G. Flügge, A. Fomenko, I. Foresti, J. Formánek, G. Franke, G. Frising, E. Gabathuler, K. Gabathuler, E. Garutti, J. Garvey, J. Gayler, R. Gerhards, C. Gerlich, S. Ghazaryan, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, S. Gorbounov, C. Grab, H. Grässler, T. Greenshaw, M. Gregori, G. Grindhammer, C. Gwilliam, D. Haidt, L. Hajduk, J. Haller, M. Hansson, G. Heinzelmann, R. C.W. Henderson, H. Henschel, O. Henshaw, R. Heremans, G. Herrera, I. Herynek, R. D. Heuer, M. Hildebrandt, K. H. Hiller, P. Höting, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, A. Hovhannisyan, M. Ibbotson, M. Ismail, M. Jacquet, L. Janauschek, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, H. Jung, D. Kant, M. Kapichine, M. Karlsson, J. Katzy, N. Keller, J. Kennedy, I. R. Kenyon, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, T. Klimkovich, T. Kluge, G. Knies, A. Knutsson, B. Koblitz, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, R. Koutouev, A. Kropivnitskaya, J. Kroseberg, J. Kückens, T. Kuhr, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, T. Laštovička, P. Laycock, A. Lebedev, B. Leißner, R. Lemrani, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, L. Lindfeld, K. Lipka, B. List, E. Lobodzinska, N. Loktionova, R. Lopez-Fernandez, V. Lubimov, H. Lueders, D. Lüke, T. Lux, L. Lytkin, A. Makankine, N. Malden, E. Malinovski, S. Mangano, P. Marage, J. Marks, R. Marshall, M. Martisikova, H. U. Martyn, S. J. Maxfield, D. Meer, A. Mehta, K. Meier, A. B. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, S. Michine, S. Mikocki, I. Milcewicz, D. Milstead, A. Mohamed, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, I. Morozov, J. V. Morris, M. U. Mozer, K. Müller, P. Murín, V. Nagovizin, B. Naroska, J. Naumann, Th Naumann, P. R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, A. Nikiforov, D. Nikitin, G. Nowak, M. Nozicka, R. Oganezov, B. Olivier, J. E. Olsson, G. Ossoskov, D. Ozerov, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, M. Peez, E. Perez, A. Perieanu, A. Petrukhin, D. Pitzl, R. Plačakyte, R. Pöschl, B. Portheault, B. Povh, N. Raicevic, Z. Ratiani, P. Reimer, B. Reisert, A. Rimmer, C. Risler, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, B. Roland, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, Z. Rurikova, S. Rusakov, K. Rybicki, D. P.C. Sankey, E. Sauvan, S. Schätzel, J. Scheins, F. P. Schilling, P. Schleper, S. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, M. Schneider, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, V. Schröder, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, C. Schwanenberger, K. Sedlák, F. Sefkow, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, Y. Sirois, T. Sloan, P. Smirnov, Y. Soloviev, D. South, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, H. Spitzer, R. Stamen, B. Stella, J. Stiewe, I. Strauch, U. Straumann, V. Tchoulakov, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, F. Tomasz, D. Traynor, P. Truöl, G. Tsipolitis, I. Tsurin, J. Turnau, E. Tzamariudaki, A. Uraev, M. Urban, A. Usik, D. Utkin, S. Valkár, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Mechelen, N. van Remortel, A. Vargas Trevino, Y. Vazdik, C. Veelken, A. Vest, S. Vinokurova, V. Volchinski, K. Wacker, J. Wagner, G. Weber, R. Weber, D. Wegener, C. Werner, N. Werner, M. Wessels, B. Wessling, G. G. Winter, C. Wissing, E. E. Woehrling, R. Wolf, E. Wünsch, S. Xella, W. Yan, V. Yeganov, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhokin, H. Zohrabyan, F. Zomer

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Abstract

The cross section for anti-deuteron photoproduction is measured at HERA at a mean centre-of-mass energy of W γp = 200 GeV in the range 0.2 < pT/M < 0.7 and |y| < 0.4, where M, pT and y are the mass, transverse momentum and rapidity of the anti-deuteron in the HERA laboratory frame, respectively. The numbers of anti-deuterons per event are found to be similar in photoproduction to those in central proton-proton collisions at the CERN ISR but much lower than those in central Au-Au collisions at RHIC. The coalescence parameter B 2, which characterizes the likelihood of anti-deuteron production, is measured in photoproduction to be 0.010 ± 0.002 ± 0.001, which is much higher than in Au-Au collisions at a similar nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy. No significant production of particles heavier than deuterons is observed and upper limits are set on the photoproduction cross sections for such particles.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)413-423
Number of pages11
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume36
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Engineering (miscellaneous)
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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