High-precision HERA data corresponding to a luminosity of around 1 fb−1 have been used in the framework of eeqq contact interactions (CI) to set limits on possible high-energy contributions beyond ...the Standard Model to electron-quark scattering. Measurements of the inclusive deep inelastic cross sections in neutral and charged current ep scattering were considered. The analysis of the ep data has been based on simultaneous fits of parton distribution functions including contributions of CI couplings to ep scattering. Several general CI models and scenarios with heavy leptoquarks were considered. Improvements in the description of the inclusive HERA data were obtained for a few models. Since a statistically significant deviation from the Standard Model cannot be established, limits in the TeV range were set on all models considered.
A
bstract
The exclusive photoproduction reactions
γp
→
J/ψ
(1
S
)
p
and
γp
→
ψ
(2
S
)
p
have been measured at an
ep
centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated ...luminosity of 373 pb
−
1
. The measurement was made in the kinematic range 30
< W <
180 GeV,
Q
2
<
1 GeV
2
and |
t
|
<
1 GeV
2
, where
W
is the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy,
Q
2
is the photon virtuality and
t
is the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex. The decay channels used were
J/ψ
(1
S
)
→ μ
+
μ
−
,
ψ
(2
S
)
→ μ
+
μ
−
and
ψ
(2
S
)
→ J/ψ
(1
S
)
π
+
π
−
with subsequent decay
J/ψ
(1
S
)
→ μ
+
μ
−
. The ratio of the production cross sections,
R
=
σ
ψ
(2
S
)
/σ
J/ψ
(1
S
)
, has been measured as a function of
W
and |
t
| and compared to previous data in photoproduction and deep inelastic scattering and with predictions of QCD-inspired models of exclusive vector-meson production, which are in reasonable agreement with the data.
At large values of x , the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton are poorly constrained and there are considerable variations between different global fits. Data at such high x have ...already been published by the ZEUS Collaboration, but not yet used in PDF extractions. A technique for comparing predictions based on different PDF sets to the observed number of events in the ZEUS data is presented. It is applied to compare predictions from the most commonly used PDFs to published ZEUS data at high Bjorken x . A wide variation is found in the ability of the PDFs to predict the observed results. A scheme for including the ZEUS highx data in future PDF extractions is discussed.
A summary is given of recent ATLAS results at the LHC, covering a number of areas that reflect the Collaboration's work in low energy physical observables in multiparticle events, elastic ...photon-photon scattering, proton-proton scattering and the tagging of diffractive events.
The photoproduction of isolated photons has been measured in diffractive events recorded by the ZEUS detector at HERA. Cross sections are evaluated in the photon transverse-energy and pseudorapidity ...ranges 5<ETγ<15 GeV and −0.7<ηγ<0.9, inclusively, and also with a jet with transverse energy and pseudorapidity in the ranges 4<ETjet<35 GeV and −1.5<ηjet<1.8, using a total integrated electron-proton luminosity of 456 pb−1. A number of kinematic variables were studied and compared to predictions from the rapgap Monte Carlo model. An excess of data is observed above the rapgap predictions for zPmeas>0.9, where zPmeas is the fraction of the longitudinal momentum of the colorless “Pomeron” exchange that is transferred to the photon-jet final state, giving evidence for direct Pomeron interactions.
A detailed consideration of the Klein-Gordon equation in relativistic quantum mechanics is presented in order to offer more clarity than many standard approaches. The equation is frequently employed ...in the research literature, even though problems have often been raised regarding its second-order nature, the status of its negative-energy solutions and the formulation of particle density and flux. Most of these problems can be avoided by dismissing the negative-energy solutions. An application of the equation to a broad wave-packet shows that a small amendment to the usual relativistic formalism can be helpful to demonstrate continuity with the non-relativistic case, although difficulties remain when the proposed quantum state has a broad relativistic energy distribution.
Hadronic final states at HERA Bussey, P.J.
Nuclear and particle physics proceedings,
April-June 2016, 2016-04-00, Letnik:
273-275
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Recent measurements of hadronic final states by H1 and ZEUS at HERA are presented. The H1 measurements consist of measurements of charged particle spectra in deep-inelastic ep scattering and of ...forward photons and neutrons. The ZEUS results consist of a series of measurements of prompt photons in photoproduction.
Combined HERA data on charm production in deep-inelastic scattering have previously been used to determine the charm-quark running mass mc(mc) in the MS‾ renormalisation scheme. Here, the same data ...are used as a function of the photon virtuality Q2 to evaluate the charm-quark running mass at different scales to one-loop order, in the context of a next-to-leading order QCD analysis. The scale dependence of the mass is found to be consistent with QCD expectations.
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