Scaled momentum spectra in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

Collaboration
Jan, 2010
44 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 06 (2010) 009,
  • JHEP 10 (2010) 030 (erratum)
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DESY-09-229

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Abstract: (arXiv)
Charged particle production has been studied in neutral current deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 0.44 fb^-1. Distributions of scaled momenta in the Breit frame are presented for particles in the current fragmentation region. The evolution of these spectra with the photon virtuality, Q^2, is described in the kinematic region 10<Q^2<41000 GeV^2. Next-to-leading-order and modified leading-log-approximation QCD calculations as well as predictions from Monte Carlo models are compared to the data. The results are also compared to e+e- annihilation data. The dependences of the pseudorapidity distribution of the particles on Q^2 and on the energy in the \gamma p system, W, are presented and interpreted in the context of the hypothesis of limiting fragmentation.
Note:
  • 44 pages, 11 figures, 21 tables
  • 25.75.Dw
  • Lepton-Nucleon Scattering
  • current: fragmentation
  • electron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • Breit frame
  • momentum spectrum
  • charged particle: multiplicity
  • neutral current
  • rapidity spectrum