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The rate of secondary charm-quark-pair production has been measured in 4.4 million hadronic Z\(^0\) decays collected by OPAL. By selecting events with three jets and tagging charmed hadrons in the gluon jet candidate using leptons and \(\mathrm{ D^{\star\pm}}\) mesons, the average number of secondary charm-quark pairs per hadronic event is found to be (3.20\(\pm\)0.21\(\pm\)0.38)\(\times10^{-2}\).
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Received: 30 June 1999 / Published online: 3 February 2000
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The OPAL Collaboration., Abbiendi et al., G. Measurement of the production rate of charm quark pairs from gluons in hadronic Z\(^{\mathbf{0}}\) decays. Eur. Phys. J. C 13, 1–13 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100520000260
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100520000260