Scaling violations and determination of αs from jet production in γp interactions at HERA

  • S. Chekanov*
  • , D. Krakauer
  • , J. H. Loizides
  • , S. Magill
  • , B. Musgrave
  • , J. Repond
  • , R. Yoshida
  • , M. C.K. Mattingly
  • , P. Antonioli
  • , G. Bari
  • , M. Basile
  • , L. Bellagamba
  • , D. Boscherini
  • , A. Bruni
  • , G. Bruni
  • , G. Cara Romeo
  • , L. Cifarelli
  • , F. Cindolo
  • , A. Contin
  • , M. Corradi
    • S. de Pasquale, P. Giusti, G. Iacobucci, A. Margotti, R. Nania, F. Palmonari, A. Pesci, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi, G. Aghuzumtsyan, D. Bartsch, I. Brock, S. Goers, H. Hartmann, E. Hilger, P. Irrgang, H. P. Jakob, A. Kappes, U. F. Katz, O. Kind, E. Paul, J. Rautenberg, R. Renner, H. Schnurbusch, A. Stifutkin, J. Tandler, K. C. Voss, M. Wang, A. Weber, D. S. Bailey, N. H. Brook, J. E. Cole, B. Foster, G. P. Heath, H. F. Heath, S. Robins, E. Rodrigues, J. Scott, R. J. Tapper, M. Wing, M. Capua, A. Mastroberardino, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, J. Y. Kim, Y. K. Kim, J. H. Lee, I. T. Lim, M. Y. Pac, A. Caldwell, M. Helbich, X. Liu, B. Mellado, Y. Ning, S. Paganis, Z. Ren, W. B. Schmidke, F. Sciulli, J. Chwastowski, A. Eskreys, J. Figiel, K. Olkiewicz, P. Stopa, L. Zawiejski, L. Adamczyk, T. Bold, I. Grabowska-Bold, D. Kisielewska, A. M. Kowal, M. Kowal, T. Kowalski, M. Przybycien, L. Suszycki, D. Szuba, J. Szuba, A. Kotanski, W. Slominski, L. A.T. Bauerdick, U. Behrens, I. Bloch, K. Borras, V. Chiochia, D. Dannheim, M. Derrick, G. Drews, J. Fourletova, A. Fox-Murphy, U. Fricke, A. Geiser, F. Goebel, P. Göttlicher, O. Gutsche, T. Haas, W. Hain, G. F. Hartner, S. Hillert, U. Kötz, H. Kowalski, G. Kramberger, H. Labes, D. Lelas, B. Löhr, R. Mankel, I. A. Melzer-Pellmann, M. Moritz, D. Notz, M. C. Petrucci, A. Polini, A. Raval, U. Schneekloth, F. Selonke, H. Wessoleck, R. Wichmann, G. Wolf, C. Youngman, W. Zeuner, A. Lopez-Duran Viani, A. Meyer, S. Schlenstedt, G. Barbagli, E. Gallo, C. Genta, P. G. Pelfer, A. Bamberger, A. Benen, N. Coppola, M. Bell, P. J. Bussey, A. T. Doyle, C. Glasman, J. Hamilton, S. Hanlon, S. W. Lee, A. Lupi, D. H. Saxon, I. O. Skillicorn, I. Gialas, B. Bodmann, T. Carli, U. Holm, K. Klimek, N. Krumnack, E. Lohrmann, M. Milite, H. Salehi, S. Stonjek, K. Wick, A. Ziegler, A. Ziegler, C. Collins-Tooth, C. Foudas, R. Gonçalo, K. R. Long, F. Metlica, A. D. Tapper, P. Cloth, D. Filges, M. Kuze, K. Nagano, K. Tokushuku, S. Yamada, Y. Yamazaki, A. N. Barakbaev, E. G. Boos, N. S. Pokrovskiy, B. O. Zhautykov, H. Lim, D. Son, F. Barreiro, O. González, L. Labarga, J. del Peso, I. Redondo, E. Tassi, J. Terrón, M. Vázquez, M. Barbi, A. Bertolin, F. Corriveau, S. Gliga, J. Lainesse, S. Padhi, D. G. Stairs, T. Tsurugai, A. Antonov, P. Danilov, B. A. Dolgoshein, D. Gladkov, V. Sosnovtsev, S. Suchkov, R. K. Dementiev, P. F. Ermolov, Y. A. Golubkov, I. I. Katkov, L. A. Khein, I. A. Korzhavina, V. A. Kuzmin, B. B. Levchenko, O. Y. Lukina, A. S. Proskuryakov, L. M. Shcheglova, N. N. Vlasov, S. A. Zotkin, C. Bokel, J. Engelen, S. Grijpink, E. Koffeman, P. Kooijman, E. Maddox, A. Pellegrino, S. Schagen, H. Tiecke, N. Tuning, J. J. Velthuis, L. Wiggers, E. de Wolf, N. Brümmer, B. Bylsma, L. S. Durkin, T. Y. Ling, S. Boogert, A. M. Cooper-Sarkar, R. C.E. Devenish, J. Ferrando, G. Grzelak, T. Matsushita, M. Rigby, O. Ruske, M. R. Sutton, R. Walczak, R. Brugnera, R. Carlin, F. Dal Corso, S. Dusini, A. Garfagnini, S. Limentani, A. Longhin, A. Parenti, M. Posocco, L. Stanco, M. Turcato, E. A. Heaphy, B. Y. Oh, P. R.B. Saull, J. J. Whitmore, Y. Iga, G. D'Agostini, G. Marini, A. Nigro, C. Cormack, J. C. Hart, N. A. McCubbin, C. Heusch, I. H. Park, N. Pavel, H. Abramowicz, A. Gabareen, S. Kananov, A. Kreisel, A. Levy, T. Abe, T. Fusayasu, S. Kagawa, T. Kohno, T. Tawara, T. Yamashita, R. Hamatsu, T. Hirose, M. Inuzuka, S. Kitamura, K. Matsuzawa, T. Nishimura, M. Arneodo, M. I. Ferrero, V. Monaco, M. Ruspa, R. Sacchi, A. Solano, R. Galea, T. Koop, G. M. Levman, J. F. Martin, A. Mirea, A. Sabetfakhri, J. M. Butterworth, C. Gwenlan, R. Hall-Wilton, T. W. Jones, M. S. Lightwood, B. J. West, J. Ciborowski, R. Ciesielski, R. J. Nowak, J. M. Pawlak, B. Smalska, J. Sztuk, T. Tymieniecka, A. Ukleja, J. Ukleja, A. F. Zarnecki, M. Adamus, P. Plucinski, Y. Eisenberg, L. K. Gladilin, D. Hochman, U. Karshon, D. Kçira, S. Lammers, L. Li, D. D. Reeder, A. A. Savin, W. H. Smith, A. Deshpande, S. Dhawan, V. W. Hughes, P. B. Straub, S. Bhadra, C. D. Catterall, S. Fourletov, S. Menary, M. Soares, J. Standage
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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, ETjet, for jets with ETjet > 17 GeV and pseudorapidity -1 <ηjet <2.5, in the γp centre-of-mass-energy range 142 < Wγp < 293 GeV. Scaled jet invariant cross sections are presented as a function of the dimensionless variable xT ≡ 2ETjet/Wγp for (Wγp) = 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 (Wγp) values shows clear non-scaling behaviour. A value for the strong coupling constant of αs(MZ) = 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 dσ/dETjet. The variation of αs with ETjet is in good agreement with the running of αs as predicted by QCD.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7-23
Number of pages17
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume560
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 May 2003

Funding

We thank the DESY Directorate for their strong support and encouragement. The remarkable achievements of the HERA machine group were essential for the successful completion of this work and are greatly appreciated. We are grateful for the support of the DESY computing and network services. The design, construction and installation of the ZEUS detector have been made possible owing to the ingenuity and effort of many people from DESY and home institutes who are not listed as authors. We would like to thank M. Klasen for valuable discussions and help in running his program for calculating QCD jet cross sections in γp interactions.

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  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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