A measurement of charm and beauty dijet photoproduction cross sections at the ep collider HERA is presented. Events are selected with two or more jets of transverse momentum p jet 1(2) t > 11(8) GeV in the central range of pseudo-rapidity −0.9 < η jet 1(2) < 1.3. The fractions of events containing charm and beauty quarks are determined using a method based on the impact parameter, in the transverse plane, of tracks to the primary vertex, as measured by the H1 central vertex detector. Differential dijet cross sections for charm and beauty, and their relative contributions to the flavour inclusive dijet photoproduction cross section, are measured as a function of the transverse momentum of the leading jet, the average pseudo-rapidity of the two jets and the observable x obs γ . Taking into account the theoretical uncertainties, the charm cross sections are consistent with a QCD calculation in next-to-leading order, while the predicted cross sections for beauty production are somewhat lower than the measurement.
A model-independent search for deviations from the Standard Model prediction
is performed in e^+ p and e^- p collisions at HERA using H1 data corresponding
to an integrated luminosity of 117 pb^-1. For the first time all event
topologies involving isolated electrons, photons, muons, neutrinos and jets
with high transverse momenta are investigated in a single analysis. Events are
assigned to exclusive classes according to their final state. A statistical
algorithm is developed to search for deviations from the Standard Model in the
distributions of the scalar sum of transverse momenta or invariant mass of
final state particles and to quantify their significance. A good agreement with
the Standard Model prediction is observed in most of the event classes. The
most significant deviation is found for a topology containing an isolated muon,
missing transverse momentum and a jet, consistent with a previously reported
observation.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures and 4 table
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