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Leading order analysis of neutrino induced dimuon events in the CHORUS experiment (2008)

Abstract
We present a leading order QCD analysis of a sample of neutrino induced charged-current events with two muons in the final state originating in the lead-scintillating fibre calorimeter of the CHORUS detector. The results are based on a sample of 8910 neutrino and 430 antineutrino induced opposite-sign dimuon events collected during the exposure of the detector to the CERN Wide Band Neutrino Beam between 1995 and 1998. The analysis yields a value of the charm quark mass of $m_c=(1.26+- 0.16+-0.09) GeV/c^2$ and a value of the ratio of the strange to non-strange sea in the nucleon of $\kappa=0.33+-0.05+-0.05$, improving the results obtained in similar analyses by previous experiments.

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Download http://arxiv.org/pdf/0804.1869.pdf
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1157246/files/CERN-PH-EP-2008-008.pdf
Repository CERN Document Server (Switzerland)
Keywords Particle Physics - Experimental Results
Language eng