Deep-inelastic inclusive ep scattering at low cursive Greek chi and a determination of αs

  • C. Adloff
  • , V. Andreev
  • , B. Andrieu
  • , T. Anthonis
  • , V. Arkadov
  • , A. Astvatsatourov
  • , I. Ayyaz
  • , A. Babaev
  • , J. Bähr
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , U. Bassler
  • , P. Bate
  • , A. Beglarian
  • , O. Behnke
  • , C. Beier
  • , A. Belousov
  • , T. Benisch
  • , Ch Berger
  • G. Bernardi, T. Berndt, J. C. Bizot, V. Boudry, W. Braunschweig, V. Brisson, H. B. Bröker, D. P. Brown, W. Brückner, P. Bruel, D. Bruncko, J. Bürger, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, H. Burkhardt, A. Burrage, G. Buschhorn, A. J. Campbell, J. Cao, T. Carli, S. Caron, E. Chabert, D. Clarke, B. Clerbaux, C. Collard, J. G. Contreras, Y. R. Coppens, J. A. Coughlan, M. C. Cousinou, B. E. Cox, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, M. Davidsson, B. Delcourt, N. Delerue, R. Demirchyan, A. de Roeck, E. A. de Wolf, C. Diaconu, P. Dixon, V. Dodonov, J. D. Dowell, A. Droutskoi, C. Duprel, G. Eckerlin, D. Eckstein, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, E. Eisenhandler, M. Ellerbrock, E. Elsen, M. Erdmann, W. Erdmann, P. J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Ferencei, S. Ferron, M. Fleischer, Y. H. Fleming, G. Flügge, A. Fomenko, I. Foresti, J. Formánek, J. M. Foster, G. Franke, E. Gabathuler, K. Gabathuler, J. Garvey, J. Gassner, J. Gayler, R. Gerhards, S. Ghazaryan, A. Glazov, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, M. Goldberg, C. Goodwin, C. Grab, H. Grässler, T. Greenshaw, G. Grindhammer, T. Hadig, D. Haidt, L. Hajduk, W. J. Haynes, B. Heinemann, G. Heinzelmann, R. C.W. Henderson, S. Hengstmann, H. Henschel, R. Heremans, G. Herrera, I. Herynek, M. Hildebrandt, M. Hilgers, K. H. Hiller, J. Hladký, P. Höting, D. Hoffmann, W. Hoprich, R. Horisberger, S. Hurling, M. Ibbotson, Ç Işsever, M. Jacquet, M. Jaffre, L. Janauschek, D. M. Jansen, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, M. A.S. Jones, H. Jung, H. K. Kästli, D. Kant, M. Kapichine, M. Karlsson, O. Karschnick, F. Keil, N. Keller, J. Kennedy, I. R. Kenyon, S. Kermiche, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, G. Knies, B. Koblitz, S. D. Kolya, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, S. K. Kotelnikov, R. Koutouev, A. Koutov, M. W. Krasny, H. Krehbiel, J. Kroseberg, K. Krüger, A. Küpper, T. Kuhr, T. Kurča, R. Lahmann, D. Lamb, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, T. Laštovička, E. Lebailly, A. Lebedev, B. Leißner, R. Lemrani, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, M. Lindstroem, B. List, E. Lobodzinska, B. Lobodzinski, A. Loginov, N. Loktionova, V. Lubimov, S. Lüders, D. Lüke, L. Lytkin, N. Magnussen, H. Mahlke-Krüger, N. Malden, E. Malinovski, I. Malinovski, R. Maraček, P. Marage, J. Marks, R. Marshall, H. U. Martyn, J. Martyniak, S. J. Maxfield, A. Mehta, K. Meier, P. Merkel, F. Metlica, A. B. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, P. O. Meyer, S. Mikocki, D. Milstead, T. Mkrtchyan, R. Mohr, S. Mohrdieck, M. N. Mondragon, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, J. V. Morris, K. Müller, P. Murín, V. Nagovizin, B. Naroska, J. Naumann, Th Naumann, G. Nellen, P. R. Newman, T. C. Nicholls, F. Niebergall, C. Niebuhr, O. Nix, G. Nowak, T. Nunnemann, J. E. Olsson, D. Ozerov, V. Panassik, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, E. Perez, J. P. Phillips, D. Pitzl, R. Pöschl, I. Potachnikova, B. Povh, K. Rabbertz, G. Rädel, J. Rauschenberger, P. Reimer, B. Reisert, D. Reyna, S. Riess, C. Risler, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, C. Royon, S. Rusakov, K. Rybicki, D. P.C. Sankey, J. Scheins, F. P. Schilling, P. Schleper, D. Schmidt, D. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, T. Schörner, V. Schröder, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, C. Schwanenberger, K. Sedlák, F. Sefkow, V. Shekelyan, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, G. Siegmon, P. Sievers, Y. Sirois, T. Sloan, P. Smirnov, V. Solochenko, Y. Soloviev, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, H. Spitzer, R. Stamen, J. Steinhart, B. Stella, A. Stellberger, J. Stiewe, U. Straumann, W. Struczinski, M. Swart, M. Taševský, V. Tchernyshov, S. Tchetchelnitski, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, N. Tobien, D. Traynor, P. Truöl, G. Tsipolitis, I. Tsurin, J. Turnau, J. E. Turney, E. Tzamariudaki, S. Udluft, A. Usik, S. Valkár, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Mechelen, S. Vassiliev, Y. Vazdik, A. Vichnevski, S. von Dombrowski, K. Wacker, R. Wallny, T. Walter, B. Waugh, G. Weber, M. Weber, D. Wegener, M. Werner, G. White, S. Wiesand, T. Wilksen, M. Winde, G. G. Winter, C. Wissing, M. Wobisch, H. Wollatz, E. Wünsch, A. C. Wyatt, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhokin, F. Zomer, J. Zsembery, M. Zur Nedden

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Abstract

A precise measurement of the inclusive deep-inelastic e+p scattering cross section is reported in the kinematic range 1.5 ≤ Q2 ≤ 150 GeV2 and 3 · 10-5 ≤ cursive Greek chi ≤ 0.2. The data were recorded with the H1 detector at HERA in 1996 and 1997, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20 pb-1. The double differential cross section, from which the proton structure function F2(cursive Greek chi, Q2) and the longitudinal structure function FL(cursive Greek chi, Q2) are extracted, is measured with typically 1% statistical and 3% systematic uncertainties. The measured derivative (∂F2 (cursive Greek chi, Q2)/∂ln Q2)cursive Greek chi, is observed to rise continuously towards small cursive Greek chi for fixed Q2. The cross section data are combined with published H1 measurements at high Q2 for a next-to-leading order DGLAP QGD analysis. The H1 data determine the gluon momentum distribution in the range 3 · 10-4 ≤ cursive Greek chi ≤ 0.1 to within an experimental accuracy of about 3% for Q2 = 20 GeV2. A fit of the H1 measurements and the μp data of the BCDMS collaboration allows the strong coupling constant αs and the gluon distribution to be simultaneously determined. A value of αs(M2Z) = 0.1150±0.0017(exp)+0.0009-0.0005(model) is obtained in NLO, with an additional theoretical uncertainty of about ±0.005, mainly due to the uncertainty of the renormalisation scale.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)33-61
Number of pages29
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume21
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2001

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