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Measurement of event shape variables in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA

  • A. Aktas*
  • , V. Andreev
  • , T. Anthonis
  • , B. Antunovic
  • , S. Aplin
  • , A. Asmone
  • , A. Astvatsatourov
  • , A. Babaev
  • , S. Backovic
  • , J. Bähr
  • , A. Baghdasaryan
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , S. Baudrand
  • , S. Baumgartner
  • , J. Becker
  • , M. Beckingham
  • , O. Behnke
  • , O. Behrendt
  • A. Belousov, C. Berger, N. Berger, J. C. Bizot, M. O. Boenig, V. Boudry, J. Bracinik, G. Brandt, V. Brisson, D. Bruncko, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, F. Cassol-Brunner, K. Cerny, V. Cerny, V. Chekelian, J. G. Contreras, J. A. Coughlan, B. E. Cox, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, Y. de Boer, B. Delcourt, M. Del Degan, A. de Roeck, K. Desch, E. A. de Wolf, C. Diaconu, V. Dodonov, A. Dubak, G. Eckerlin, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, E. Elsen, W. Erdmann, S. Essenov, A. Falkewicz, P. J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Feltesse, J. Ferencei, L. Finke, M. Fleischer, P. Fleischmann, G. Flucke, A. Fomenko, I. Foresti, G. Franke, T. Frisson, E. Gabathuler, E. Garutti, J. Gayler, C. Gerlich, S. Ghazaryan, S. Ginzburgskaya, A. Glazov, I. Glushkov, L. Goerlich, M. Goettlich, N. Gogitidze, S. Gorbounov, C. Goyon, C. Grab, T. Greenshaw, M. Gregori, B. R. Grell, G. Grindhammer, C. Gwilliam, D. Haidt, L. Hajduk, M. Hansson, G. Heinzelmann, R. C.W. Henderson, H. Henschel, G. Herrera, M. Hildebrandt, K. H. Hiller, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, A. Hovhannisyan, T. Hreus, S. Hussain, M. Ibbotson, M. Ismail, M. Jacquet, L. Janauschek, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, A. W. Jung, H. Jung, M. Kapichine, J. Katzy, I. R. Kenyon, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, T. Klimkovich, T. Kluge, G. Knies, A. Knutsson, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, K. Krastev, J. Kretzschmar, A. Kropivnitskaya, K. Krüger, J. Kückens, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, T. Laštovička, G. Laštovička-Medin, P. Laycock, A. Lebedev, G. Leibenguth, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, L. Lindfeld, K. Lipka, A. Liptaj, B. List, J. List, E. Lobodzinska, N. Loktionova, R. Lopez-Fernandez, V. Lubimov, A. I. Lucaci-Timoce, H. Lueders, D. Lüke, T. Lux, L. Lytkin, A. Makankine, N. Malden, E. Malinovski, S. Mangano, P. Marage, R. Marshall, M. Martisikova, H. U. Martyn, S. J. Maxfield, D. Meer, A. Mehta, K. Meier, A. B. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, V. Michels, S. Mikocki, I. Milcewicz-Mika, D. Milstead, D. Mladenov, A. Mohamed, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, J. V. Morris, M. U. Mozer, K. Müller, P. Murín, K. Nankov, B. Naroska, T. Naumann, P. R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, A. Nikiforov, G. Nowak, M. Nozicka, R. Oganezov, B. Olivier, J. E. Olsson, S. Osman, D. Ozerov, V. Palichik, I. Panagoulias, T. Papadopoulou, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, H. Peng, E. Perez, D. Perez-Astudillo, A. Perieanu, A. Petrukhin, D. Pitzl, R. Plačakyte, B. Portheault, B. Povh, P. Prideaux, A. J. Rahmat, N. Raicevic, P. Reimer, A. Rimmer, C. Risler, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, B. Roland, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, Z. Rurikova, S. Rusakov, F. Salvaire, D. P.C. Sankey, E. Sauvan, S. Schätzel, S. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, C. Schmitz, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, K. Sedlák, F. Sefkow, R. N. Shaw-West, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, T. Sloan, P. Smirnov, Y. Soloviev, D. South, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, M. Steder, B. Stella, J. Stiewe, I. Strauch, U. Straumann, D. Sunar, V. Tchoulakov, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, F. Tomasz, D. Traynor, P. Truöl, I. Tsakov, G. Tsipolitis, I. Tsurin, J. Turnau, E. Tzamariudaki, K. Urban, M. Urban, A. Usik, D. Utkin, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Mechelen, A. Vargas Trevino, Y. Vazdik, C. Veelken, S. Vinokurova, V. Volchinski, K. Wacker, J. Wagner, G. Weber, R. Weber, D. Wegener, C. Werner, M. Wessels, B. Wessling, C. Wigmore, C. Wissing, R. Wolf, E. Wünsch, S. Xella, W. Yan, V. Yeganov, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokin, Y. C. Zhu, J. Zimmermann, T. Zimmermann, H. Zohrabyan, F. Zomer
*Corresponding author for this work
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • Inter-University Institute for High Energies
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Roma Tre University
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • University of Montenegro
  • A. Alikhanian Yerevan Institute of Physics
  • Universités Paris VI
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • ETH Zurich—Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA)
  • University of Zurich
  • TU Dortmund University
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Ecole Polytechnique of Paris
  • Heidelberg University 
  • Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • University of Hamburg
  • Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • CNRS/IN2P3-Univ Mediterranee
  • Charles University
  • Comenius University
  • Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Manchester
  • CEA Saclay
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Liverpool
  • Kiel University
  • University of Wuppertal
  • CERN
  • Paul Scherrer Institute
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Birmingham
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Lund University
  • Lancaster University
  • Departamento de Fisica CINVESTAV
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

Deep-inelastic ep scattering data taken with the HI detector at HERA and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 106 pb-1 are used to study the differential distributions of event shape variables. These include thrust, jet broadening, jet mass and the C-parameter. The four-momentum transfer Q is taken to be the relevant energy scale and ranges between 14 GeV and 200 GeV. The event shape distributions are compared with perturbative QCD predictions, which include resummed contributions and analytical power law corrections, the latter accounting for non-perturbative hadronisation effects. The data clearly exhibit the running of the strong coupling α s(Q) and are consistent with a universal power correction parameter α0 for all event shape variables. A combined QCD fit using all event shape variables yields αs(mZ) = 0.1198 ± 0.0013 -0.0043+0.0056 and α0 = 0.476 ± 0.008 -0.059+0.018.

Original languageEnglish
Article number343
Pages (from-to)343-356
Number of pages14
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume46
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2006
Externally publishedYes

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