Measurement of the charm production cross-section in gamma gamma collisions at LEP

The L3 collaboration Acciarri, M. ; Achard, P. ; Adriani, O. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 514 (2001) 19-28, 2001.
Inspire Record 539946 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.49797

Open charm production in gamma-gamma collisions is studied with data collected at e+e- centre-of-mass energies from 189 GeV to 202 GeV corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 410 pb-1. The charm cross section sigma(gamma gamma ---> c c~ X) is measured for the first time as a function of the two-photon centre-of-mass energy in the interval from 5 GeV to 70 GeV and is compared to NLO QCD calculations.

3 data tables

The total cross section for the process E+ E- --> E+ E- CQ CQBAR X.

The total cross section for the process GAMMA GAMMA --> CQ CQBAR X.

Correlation matrix of the data after unfolding.