Scaling violations and determination of alpha(s) from jet production in gamma p interactions at HERA

Chekanov, S. et al. (2003) Scaling violations and determination of alpha(s) from jet production in gamma p interactions at HERA. Physics Letters B, 560(1-2), 7 -23. (doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00380-0)

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Abstract

Differential cross sections for jet photoproduction in the reaction ep → e jet X have been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using 82.2 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity. Inclusive jet cross sections are presented as a function of the jet transverse energy, E-T(jet), for jets with E-T(jet) gt 17 GeV and pseudorapidity -1 lt eta(jet) lt 2.5, in the gammap centre-of-mass-energy range 142 lt Wgammap lt 293 GeV. Scaled jet invariant cross sections are presented as a function of the dimensionless variable x(T) equivalent to 2E(T)(jet)/W-gammap for (W-gammap) = 180 and 255 GeV: Next-to-leading-order QCD calculations give a good description of the measured differential cross sections in both magnitude and shape. The ratio of scaled jet invariant cross sections at the two (Wgammap) values shows clear non-scaling behaviour. A value for the strong coupling constant of alpha(s) (M-Z) = 0.1224 +/- 0.0001(stat.)(-0.0019)(+0.0022)(exp.)(-0.0042)(+0.0054)(th.) has been extracted from a QCD analysis of the measured dsigma/dE(T)(jet). The variation of sigma(s) with E-T(jet) is in good agreement with the running of sigma(s) as predicted by QCD.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Saxon, Professor David and Collins-Tooth, Dr Christopher and Bussey, Dr Peter and Doyle, Professor Anthony and Skillicorn, Professor Ian
Authors: Chekanov, S., Krakauer, D., Loizides, J.H., Magill, S., Musgrave, B., Repond, J., Yoshida, R., Mattingly, M.C.K., Antonioli, P., Bari, G., Basile, M., Bellagamba, L., Boscherini, D., Bruni, A., Bruni, G., Romeo, G.C., Cifarelli, L., Cindolo, F., Contin, A., Corradi, M., de Pasquale, S., Giusti, P., Iacobucci, G., Margotti, A., Nania, R., Palmonari, F., Pesci, A., Sartorelli, G., Zichichi, A., Aghuzumtsyan, G., Bartsch, D., Brock, I., Goers, S., Hartmann, H., Hilger, E., Irrgang, P., Jakob, H.P., Kappes, A., Katz, U.F., Kind, O., Paul, E., Rautenberg, J., Renner, R., Schnurbusch, H., Stifutkin, A., Tandler, J., Voss, K.C., Wang, M., Weber, A., Bailey, D.S., Brook, N.H., Cole, J.E., Foster, B., Heath, G.P., Heath, H.F., Robins, S., Rodrigues, E., Scott, J., Tapper, R.J., Wing, M., Capua, M., Mastroberardino, A., Schioppa, M., Susinno, G., Kim, J.Y., Kim, Y.K., Lee, J.H., Lim, I.T., Pac, M.Y., Caldwell, A., Helbich, M., Liu, X., Mellado, B., Ning, Y., Paganis, S., Ren, Z., Schmidke, W.B., Sciulli, F., Chwastowski, J., Eskreys, A., Figiel, J., Olkiewicz, K., Stopa, P., Zawiejski, L., Adamczyk, L., Bold, T., Grabowska-Bold, I., Kisielewska, D., Kowal, A.M., Kowal, M., Kowalski, T., Przybycien, M., Suszycki, L., Szuba, D., Szuba, J., Kotanski, A., Slominski, W., Bauerdick, L.A.T., Behrens, U., Bloch, I., Borras, K., Chiochia, V., Dannheim, D., Derrick, M., Drews, G., Fourletova, J., Fox-Murphy, A., Fricke, U., Geiser, A., Goebel, F., Gottlicher, P., Gutsche, O., Haas, T., Hain, W., Hartner, G.F., Hillert, S., Kotz, U., Kowalski, H., Kramberger, G., Labes, H., Lelas, D., Lohr, B., Mankel, R., Melzer-Pellmann, I.A., Moritz, M., Notz, D., Petrucci, M.C., Polini, A., Raval, A., Schneekloth, U., Selonke, F., Wessoleck, H., Wichmann, R., Wolf, G., Youngman, C., Zeuner, W., Viani, A.L.D., Meyer, A., Schlenstedt, S., Barbagli, G., Gallo, E., Genta, C., Pelfer, P.G., Bamberger, A., Benen, A., Coppola, N., Bell, M., Bussey, P.J., Doyle, A.T., Glasman, C., Hamilton, J., Hanlon, S., Lee, S.W., Lupi, A., Saxon, D.H., Skillicorn, I.O., Gialas, I., Bodmann, B., Carli, T., Holm, U., Klimek, K., Krumnack, N., Lohrmann, E., Milite, M., Salehi, H., Stonjek, S., Wick, K., Ziegler, A., Ziegler, A., Collins-Tooth, C., Foudas, C., Goncalo, R., Long, K.R., Metlica, F., Tapper, A.D., Cloth, P., Filges, D., Kuze, M., Nagano, K., Tokushuku, K., Yamada, S., Yamazaki, Y., Barakbaev, A., Boos, E.G., Pokrovskiy, N.S., Zhautykov, B.O., Lim, H., Son, D., Barreiro, F., Gonzalez, O., Labarga, L., del Peso, J., Redondo, I., Tassi, E., Terron, J., Vazquez, M., Barbi, M., Bertolin, A., Corriveau, F., Gliga, S., Lainesse, J., Padhi, S., Stairs, D.G., Tsurugai, T., Antonov, A., Danilov, P., Dolgoshein, B.A., Gladkov, D., Sosnovtsev, V., Suchkov, S., Dementiev, R.K., Ermolov, P.F., Golubkov, Y.A., Katkov, I.I., Khein, L.A., Korzhavina, I.A., Kuzmin, V.A., Levchenko, B.B., Lukina, O.Y., Proskuryakov, A.S., Shcheglova, L.M., Vlasov, N.N., Zotkin, S.A., Bokel, C., Engelen, J., Grijpink, S., Koffeman, E., Kooijman, P., Maddox, E., Pellegrino, A., Schagen, S., Tiecke, H., Tuning, N., Velthuis, J.J., Wiggers, L., and de Wolf, E.
Subjects:Q Science > QC Physics
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Physics Letters B
Publisher:Elsevier BV
ISSN:0370-2693
ISSN (Online):1873-2445

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