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Measurement of leading proton and neutron production in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA

  • C. Adloff
  • , M. Anderson
  • , V. Andreev
  • , B. Andrieu
  • , V. Arkadov
  • , C. Arndt
  • , I. Ayyaz
  • , A. Babaev
  • , J. Bähr
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , U. Bassler
  • , P. Bate
  • , M. Beck
  • , A. Beglarian
  • , O. Behnke
  • , H. J. Behrend
  • , C. Beier
  • , A. Belousov
  • Ch Berger, G. Bernardi, T. Berndt, G. Bertrand-Coremans, P. Biddulph, J. C. Bizot, V. Boudry, W. Braunschweig, V. Brisson, D. P. Brown, W. Brückner, P. Bruel, D. Bruncko, J. Bürger, F. W. Büsser, A. Buniatian, S. Burke, G. Buschhorn, D. Calvet, A. J. Campbell, T. Carli, E. Chabert, M. Charlet, D. Clarke, B. Clerbaux, S. Cocks, J. G. Contreras, C. Cormack, J. A. Coughlan, M. C. Cousinou, B. E. Cox, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, M. David, M. Davidsson, A. de Roeck, E. A. de Wolf, B. Delcourt, R. Demirchyan, C. Diaconu, M. Dirkmann, P. Dixon, W. Dlugosz, K. T. Donovan, J. D. Dowell, A. Droutskoi, J. Ebert, G. Eckerlin, D. Eckstein, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, E. Eisenhandler, E. Elsen, M. Enzenberger, M. Erdmann, A. B. Fahr, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Feltesse, J. Ferencei, F. Ferrarotto, M. Fleischer, G. FKigge, A. Fomenko, J. Formánek, J. M. Foster, G. Franke, E. Gabathuler, K. Gabathuler, F. Gaede, J. Garvey, J. Gassner, J. Gayler, R. Gerhards, S. Ghazaryan, A. Glazov, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, M. Goldberg, I. Gorelov, C. Grab, H. Grässler, T. Greenshaw, R. K. Griffiths, G. Grindhammer, T. Hadig, D. Haidt, L. Hajduk, T. Haller, M. Hampel, V. Haustein, W. J. Haynes, B. Heinemann, G. Heinzelmann, R. C.W. Henderson, S. Hengstmann, H. Henschel, R. Heremans, I. Herynek, K. Hewitt, K. H. Hiller, C. D. Hilton, J. Hladký, D. Hoffmann, T. Holtom, R. Horisberger, S. Hurling, M. Ibbotson, C. Işsever, M. Jacquet, M. Jaffre, D. M. Jansen, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, H. Jung, H. K. Kästli, M. Kander, D. Kant, M. Kapichine, M. Karlsson, O. Karschnik, J. Katzy, O. Kaufmann, M. Kausch, I. R. Kenyon, S. Kermiche, C. Keuker, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, G. Knies, J. H. Köhne, H. Kolanoski, S. D. Kolya, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, S. K. Kotelnikov, T. Krämerkämper, M. W. Krasny, H. Krehbiel, D. Krücker, K. Krüger, A. Küpper, H. Küster, M. Kuhlen, T. Kurča, R. Lahmann, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, U. Langenegger, A. Lebedev, F. Lehner, V. Lemaitre, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, M. Lindstroem, B. List, G. Lobo, E. Lobodzinska, V. Lubimov, S. Lüders, D. Lüke, L. Lytkin, N. Magnussen, H. Mahlke-Krüger, E. Malinovski, R. Maraček, P. Marage, J. Marks, R. Marshall, G. Martin, H. U. Martyn, J. Martyniak, S. J. Maxfield, S. J. McMahon, T. R. McMahon, A. Mehta, K. Meier, P. Merkel, F. Metlica, A. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, P. O. Meyer, S. Mikocki, D. Milstead, J. Moeck, R. Mohr, S. Mohrdieck, F. Moreau, J. V. Morris, D. Müller, K. Müller, P. Murín, V. Nagovizin, B. Naroska, Th Naumann, I. Négri, P. R. Newman, H. K. Nguyen, T. C. Nicholls, F. Niebergall, C. Niebuhr, Ch Niedzballa, H. Niggli, D. Nikitin, O. Nix, G. Nowak, T. Nunnemann, H. Oberlack, J. E. Olsson, D. Ozerov, P. Palmen, V. Panassik, C. Pascaud, S. Passaggio, G. D. Patel, H. Pawletta, E. Perez, J. P. Phillips, A. Pieuchot, D. Pitzl, R. Pöschl, G. Pope, B. Povh, K. Rabbertz, J. Rauschenberger, P. Reimer, B. Reisert, H. Rick, S. Riess, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, R. Roosen, K. Rosenbauer, A. Rostovtsev, F. Rouse, C. Royon, S. Rusakov, K. Rybicki, D. P.C. Sankey, P. Schacht, J. Scheins, F. P. Schilling, S. Schleif, P. Schleper, D. Schmidt, L. Schoeffel, V. Schröder, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, B. Schwab, F. Sefkow, A. Semenov, V. Shekelyan, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, G. Siegmon, Y. Sirois, T. Sloan, P. Smirnov, M. Smith, V. Solochenko, Y. Soloviev, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, J. Spiekermann, H. Spitzer, F. Squinabol, P. Steffen, R. Steinberg, J. Steinhart, B. Stella, A. Stellberger, J. Stiewe, U. Straumann, W. Struczinski, J. P. Sutton, M. Swart, S. Tapprogge, M. Taševský, V. Tchernyshov, S. Tchetchelnitski, J. Theissen, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, N. Tobien, R. Todenhagen, P. Truöl, G. Tsipolitis, J. Turnau, E. Tzamariudaki, S. Udluft, A. Usik, S. Valkár, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Esch, A. van Haecke, P. van Mechelen, Y. Vazdik, G. Villet, K. Wacker, R. Wallny, T. Walter, B. Waugh, G. Weber, M. Weber, D. Wegener, A. Wegner, T. Wengler, M. Werner, L. R. West, S. Wiesand, T. Wilksen, S. Willard, M. Winde, G. G. Winter, C. Wittek, E. Wittmann, M. Wobisch, H. Wollatz, E. Wunsch, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhokin, P. Zini, F. Zomer, J. Zsembery, M. zurNedden
  • Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
  • University of Manchester
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • c/o DESY
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • Yerevan Physics Institute
  • University of Heidelberg
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Universität Hamburg
  • University Roma Tre
  • Lancaster University
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Dortmund
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
  • Lund University
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of Birmingham
  • Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich
  • ETH Zurich
  • Dept. Fis. Ap. CINVESTAV
  • Charles University
  • Paul Scherrer Institut
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Universität Karlsruhe/Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

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Abstract

Deep-inelastic scattering events with a leading baryon have been detected by the H1 experiment at HERA using a forward proton spectrometer and a forward neutron calorimeter. Semi-inclusive cross sections have been measured in the kinematic region 2 ≤ Q2 ≤ 50 GeV2, 6 × 10-5 ≤ x ≤ 6 × 10-3 and baryon pΤ ≤ 200 MeV, for events with a final-state proton with energy 580 ≤ E′ ≤ 740 GeV, or a neutron with energy E′ ≥ 160 GeV. The measurements are used to test production models and factorization hypotheses. A Regge model of leading baryon production which consists of pion, pomeron and secondary reggeon exchanges gives an acceptable description of both semi-inclusive cross sections in the region 0.7 ≤ E′/Ep ≤ 0.9, where Ep is the proton beam energy. The leading neutron data are used to estimate for the first time the structure function of the pion at small Bjorken-x.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)587-602
Number of pages16
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume6
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1999

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