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      Measurement of D*+/- meson production in jets from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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          This paper reports a measurement of D*+/- meson production in jets from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is based on a data sample recorded with the ATLAS detector with an integrated luminosity of 0.30 pb^-1 for jets with transverse momentum between 25 and 70 GeV in the pseudorapidity range |eta| < 2.5. D*+/- mesons found in jets are fully reconstructed in the decay chain: D*+ -> D0pi+, D0 -> K-pi+, and its charge conjugate. The production rate is found to be N(D*+/-)/N(jet) = 0.025 +/- 0.001(stat.) +/- 0.004(syst.) for D*+/- mesons that carry a fraction z of the jet momentum in the range 0.3 < z < 1. Monte Carlo predictions fail to describe the data at small values of z, and this is most marked at low jet transverse momentum.

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                19 December 2011
                2012-04-11
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                10.1103/PhysRevD.85.052005
                1112.4432
                a4e412ac-9bf6-4b69-a747-f525b5429191

                http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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                CERN-PH-EP-2011-180
                Phys. Rev. D85 (2012) 052005
                10 pages plus author list (22 pages total), 5 figures, 1 table, matches published version in Physical Review D
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