Bottom photoproduction measured using decays into muons in dijet events inepcollisions ats=318GeV

Abstract

The photoproduction of bottom quarks in events with two jets and a muon has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 110 ${\mathrm{pb}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}1}$. The fraction of jets containing b quarks was extracted from the transverse momentum distribution of the muon relative to the closest jet. Differential cross sections for bottom production as a function of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the muon, of the associated jet and of ${x}_{\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{\mathrm{jets}},$ the fraction of the photon's momentum participating in the hard process, are compared with MC models and QCD predictions made at next-to-leading order. The latter give a good description of the data.