A combination is presented of the inclusive deep inelastic cross sections measured by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations in neutral and charged current unpolarised
e
±
p
scattering at HERA during the ...period 1994-2000. The data span six orders of magnitude in negative four-momentum-transfer squared,
Q
2
, and in Bjorken
x
. The combination method used takes the correlations of systematic uncertainties into account, resulting in an improved accuracy. The combined data are the sole input in a NLO QCD analysis which determines a new set of parton distributions, HERAPDF1.0, with small experimental uncertainties. This set includes an estimate of the model and parametrisation uncertainties of the fit result.
A method to calculate heavy flavor visible-level cross sections at Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), based on an interface of the FMNR program to PYTHIA, is described. It ...uses the NLO prediction at quark level provided by FMNR, with a statistical reduction procedure (REDSTAT) that allows a link to PYTHIA 6.2 to be made, from where the description of the full hadron fragmentation and decay chain is obtained. The method is applied to ep → bbX → D*μX and μ+μ−X final states at HERA. Comparisons of the data and NLO cross sections at visible and b-quark level were found to be consistent.
This paper introduces a probability density estimator based on Green's function identities. A density model is constructed under the sole assumption that the probability density is differentiable. ...The method is implemented as a binary likelihood estimator for classification purposes, so issues such as mis-modeling and overtraining are also discussed. The identity behind the density estimator can be interpreted as a real-valued, non-scalar kernel method which is able to reconstruct differentiable density functions.
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The production of
D
0
,
D
*
+
,
D
+
,
and
charm hadrons and their antiparticles in
ep
scattering at HERA has been studied with the ZEUS detector, using a total integrated luminosity of 372 ...pb
−1
. The fractions of charm quarks hadronising into a particular charm hadron were derived. In addition, the ratio of neutral to charged
D
-meson production rates, the fraction of charged
D
mesons produced in a vector state, and the stangeness-suppression factor have been determined. The measurements have been performed in the photoproduction regime. The charm hadrons were reconstructed in the range of transverse momentum
p
T
>
3
.
8 GeV and pseudorapidity |
η
|
<
1
.
6. The charm fragmentation fractions are compared to previous results from HERA and from
e
+
e
−
experiments. The data support the hypothesis that fragmentation is independent of the production process.
Single- and double-differential inclusive dijet cross sections in neutral current deep inelastic
ep
scattering have been measured with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 374 pb
−1
. ...The measurement was performed at large values of the photon virtuality,
Q
2
, between 125 and 20 000 GeV
2
. The jets were reconstructed with the
k
T
cluster algorithm in the Breit reference frame and selected by requiring their transverse energies in the Breit frame,
, to be larger than 8 GeV. In addition, the invariant mass of the dijet system,
, was required to be greater than 20 GeV. The cross sections are described by the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD.
A search for events containing an isolated electron or muon and missing transverse momentum produced in
e
±
p
collisions is performed with the H1 and ZEUS detectors at HERA. The data were taken in ...the period 1994–2007 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 0.98 fb
−1
. The observed event yields are in good overall agreement with the Standard Model prediction, which is dominated by single W production. In the
e
+
p
data, at large hadronic transverse momentum
P
T
X
> 25GeV, a total of 23 events are observed compared to a prediction of 14.0 ± 1.9. The total single
W
boson production cross section is measured as 1.06 ± 0.16 (stat.) ± 0.07 (sys.) pb, in agreement with an Standard Model (SM) expectation of 1.26 ± 0.19 pb.
The exclusive photoproduction reaction γp→ϒp has been studied with the ZEUS experiment in ep collisions at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 468 pb−1. The measurement covers the kinematic range ...60<W<220 GeV and Q2<1 GeV2, where W is the photon–proton centre-of-mass energy and Q2 is the photon virtuality. These results, which represent the analysis of the full ZEUS data sample for this channel, are compared to predictions based on perturbative QCD.
Inclusive-jet cross sections have been measured in the reaction ep→e+jet+X for photon virtuality Q2<1 GeV2 and γp centre-of-mass energies in the region 142<Wγp<293 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA ...using an integrated luminosity of 300 pb−1. Jets were identified using the kT, anti-kT or SIScone jet algorithms in the laboratory frame. Single-differential cross sections are presented as functions of the jet transverse energy, ETjet, and pseudorapidity, ηjet, for jets with ETjet>17 GeV and −1<ηjet<2.5. In addition, measurements of double-differential inclusive-jet cross sections are presented as functions of ETjet in different regions of ηjet. Next-to-leading-order QCD calculations give a good description of the measurements, except for jets with low ETjet and high ηjet. The influence of non-perturbative effects not related to hadronisation was studied. Measurements of the ratios of cross sections using different jet algorithms are also presented; the measured ratios are well described by calculations including up to O(αs2) terms. Values of αs(MZ) were extracted from the measurements and the energy-scale dependence of the coupling was determined. The value of αs(MZ) extracted from the measurements based on the kT jet algorithm is αs(MZ)=0.1206−0.0022+0.0023(exp.)−0.0035+0.0042(th.); the results from the anti-kT and SIScone algorithms are compatible with this value and have a similar precision.
A search for single-top production, ep→etX, has been performed with the ZEUS detector at HERA using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.37 fb−1. No evidence for top production was ...found, consistent with the expectation from the Standard Model. Limits were computed for single-top production via flavour changing neutral current transitions involving a neutral electroweak vector boson, γ or Z. The result was combined with a previous ZEUS result yielding a total luminosity of 0.50 fb−1. A 95% credibility level upper limit of 0.13 pb was obtained for the cross section at the centre-of-mass energy of s=315 GeV.
Isolated photon production in deep inelastic ep scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 320 pb−1. Measurements were made in the isolated-photon ...transverse-energy and pseudorapidity ranges 4<ETγ<15 GeV and −0.7<ηγ<0.9 for exchanged photon virtualities, Q2, in the range 10<Q2<350 GeV2 and for invariant masses of the hadronic system WX>5 GeV. Differential cross sections are presented for inclusive isolated photon production as functions of Q2, x, ETγ and ηγ. Leading-logarithm parton-shower Monte Carlo simulations and perturbative QCD predictions give a reasonable description of the data over most of the kinematic range.
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