Deep inelastic positron-proton scattering in the high-momentum-transfer regime of HERA

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    • Katz, Ulrich F.

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Deep inelastic positron-proton scattering in the high-momentum-transfer regime of HERA

Ulrich F. Katz

(Springer tracts in modern physics : Ergebnisse der exakten Naturwissenschaften / editor, G. Höhler, 168 . Elementary particle physics / editors, Johann H. Kühn, Thomas Müller)(Physics and astronomy online library)

Springer, c2000

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"With 96 figures"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-220) and index

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Description

About three decades after the first experiments on deep inelastic lepton hadron scattering began to investigate the structure of hadrons, the history of this fruitful field of particle physics continues in the broad spectrum of research performed at the electron and positron proton collider HERA at DESY, where the multipurpose detectors ZEUS and H1 access ep scattering at a center of mass energy of 300 GeV and explore as yet uncharted kinematic realms of deep inelastic scattering. After the first years of data taking at HERA, each of the experiments has collected a total of roughly 40 pb 1 of e+p data, yielding sensitivity to deep inelastic e+p interactions at high four momentum transfers, Q2, where typi cal cross sections drop into the subpicobarn regime. This kinematic domain is characterized by electroweak unification, manifesting itself most markedly in the neutral and charged current cross sections, which approach an equal order of magnitude as Q2 rises above the square of the W and Z masses. Consequently, HERA allows, for the first time, studies of both types of pro cesses simultaneously with the same initial state conditions and in the same detector, and thus we can investigate the interplay of electroweak and strong forces governing the respective cross sections.

Table of Contents

Deep Inelastic ep Cross Sections.- Experimental Issues.- Results from the ZEUS and H1 Experiments.- Outlook.- Summary.

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