Inclusive charged particle distributions in deep inelastic scattering events at HERA

Collaboration
Nov, 1995
34 pages
Published in:
  • Z.Phys.C 70 (1996) 1-16
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Report number:
  • DESY-95-221
Experiments:

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Abstract:
A measurement of inclusive charged particle distributions in deep inelastic epep scattering for γ p\gamma~* p centre-of-mass energies 75<W<17575< W < 175GeV and momentum transfer squared 10<Q 2<16010< Q~2 < 160GeV 2~2 from the ZEUS detector at HERA is presented. The differential charged particle rates in the γ p\gamma~* p centre-of-mass system as a function of the scaled longitudinal momentum, xFx_F, and of the transverse momentum, pt p_t~* and < ⁣ ⁣pt 2 ⁣ ⁣><\!\!p_t~{*\,2}\!\!>\,\, , as a function of xFx_F, WW and Q 2Q~2 are given. Separate distributions are shown for events with (LRG) and without (NRG) a rapidity gap with respect to the proton direction. The data are compared with results from experiments at lower beam energies, with the naive quark parton model and with parton models including perturbative QCD corrections. The comparison shows the importance of the higher order QCD processes. Significant differences of the inclusive charged particle rates between NRG and LRG events at the same WW are observed. The value of < ⁣ ⁣pt 2 ⁣ ⁣><\!\!p_t~{*\,2}\!\!>\,\, for LRG events with a hadronic mass MXM_X, which excludes the forward produced baryonic system, is similar to the < ⁣ ⁣pt 2 ⁣ ⁣><\!\!p_t~{*\,2}\!\!>\,\, value observed in fixed target experiments at WMXW \approx M_X.
Note:
  • 34 pages, latex, 9 figures appended as uuencoded file Report-no: DESY 95-221
  • electron p: colliding beams
  • colliding beams: electron p
  • electron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • deep inelastic scattering: electron p
  • electron p: inclusive reaction
  • charged particle: electroproduction
  • electroproduction: charged particle
  • hadron: electroproduction
  • electroproduction: hadron
  • rapidity: gap