The dependence of dijet production on photon virtuality in ep collisions at HERA
The dependence of dijet production on the virtuality of the exchanged photon, Q2, has been studied by measuring dijet cross sections in the range 0 ≲ Q2 < 2000 GeV2 with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 38.6 pb-1. Dijet cross sections were measured for jets with tra...
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author | Chekanov, S Derrick, M Loizides, J Magill, S Miglioranzi, S Musgrave, B Repond, J Yoshida, R Mattingly, M Pavel, N Antonioli, P Bari, G Basile, M Bellagamba, L Boscherini, D Bruni, A Bruni, G Romeo, G Cifarelli, L Cindolo, F Contin, A Corradi, M De Pasquale, S Giusti, P Iacobucci, G |
author_facet | Chekanov, S Derrick, M Loizides, J Magill, S Miglioranzi, S Musgrave, B Repond, J Yoshida, R Mattingly, M Pavel, N Antonioli, P Bari, G Basile, M Bellagamba, L Boscherini, D Bruni, A Bruni, G Romeo, G Cifarelli, L Cindolo, F Contin, A Corradi, M De Pasquale, S Giusti, P Iacobucci, G |
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description | The dependence of dijet production on the virtuality of the exchanged photon, Q2, has been studied by measuring dijet cross sections in the range 0 ≲ Q2 < 2000 GeV2 with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 38.6 pb-1. Dijet cross sections were measured for jets with transverse energy ETjet > 7.5 and 6.5 GeV and pseudorapidities in the photon-proton centre-of-mass frame in the range -3 < jet < 0. The variable xγobs, a measure of the photon momentum entering the hard process, was used to enhance the sensitivity of the measurement to the photon structure. The Q2 dependence of the ratio of low- to high-xγobs events was measured. Next-to-leading-order QCD predictions were found to generally underestimate the low-xγobs contribution relative to that at high xγobs. Monte Carlo models based on leading-logarithmic parton-showers, using a partonic structure for the photon which falls smoothly with increasing Q2, provide a qualitative description of the data. © Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica 2004. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:6fd02dec-84f5-48f1-a771-e9716a86f56e2022-03-26T19:33:07ZThe dependence of dijet production on photon virtuality in ep collisions at HERAJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6fd02dec-84f5-48f1-a771-e9716a86f56eEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2004Chekanov, SDerrick, MLoizides, JMagill, SMiglioranzi, SMusgrave, BRepond, JYoshida, RMattingly, MPavel, NAntonioli, PBari, GBasile, MBellagamba, LBoscherini, DBruni, ABruni, GRomeo, GCifarelli, LCindolo, FContin, ACorradi, MDe Pasquale, SGiusti, PIacobucci, GThe dependence of dijet production on the virtuality of the exchanged photon, Q2, has been studied by measuring dijet cross sections in the range 0 ≲ Q2 < 2000 GeV2 with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 38.6 pb-1. Dijet cross sections were measured for jets with transverse energy ETjet > 7.5 and 6.5 GeV and pseudorapidities in the photon-proton centre-of-mass frame in the range -3 < jet < 0. The variable xγobs, a measure of the photon momentum entering the hard process, was used to enhance the sensitivity of the measurement to the photon structure. The Q2 dependence of the ratio of low- to high-xγobs events was measured. Next-to-leading-order QCD predictions were found to generally underestimate the low-xγobs contribution relative to that at high xγobs. Monte Carlo models based on leading-logarithmic parton-showers, using a partonic structure for the photon which falls smoothly with increasing Q2, provide a qualitative description of the data. © Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica 2004. |
spellingShingle | Chekanov, S Derrick, M Loizides, J Magill, S Miglioranzi, S Musgrave, B Repond, J Yoshida, R Mattingly, M Pavel, N Antonioli, P Bari, G Basile, M Bellagamba, L Boscherini, D Bruni, A Bruni, G Romeo, G Cifarelli, L Cindolo, F Contin, A Corradi, M De Pasquale, S Giusti, P Iacobucci, G The dependence of dijet production on photon virtuality in ep collisions at HERA |
title | The dependence of dijet production on photon virtuality in ep collisions at HERA |
title_full | The dependence of dijet production on photon virtuality in ep collisions at HERA |
title_fullStr | The dependence of dijet production on photon virtuality in ep collisions at HERA |
title_full_unstemmed | The dependence of dijet production on photon virtuality in ep collisions at HERA |
title_short | The dependence of dijet production on photon virtuality in ep collisions at HERA |
title_sort | dependence of dijet production on photon virtuality in ep collisions at hera |
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