Measurement of dijet cross sections for events with a leading neutron in photoproduction at HERA
Nuclear Physics B 596:1-2 (2001) 3-29
Authors:
J Breitweg, S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, A Pellegrino, J Repond, R Stanek, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, I Brock, K Coböken, J Crittenden, R Deffner, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, R Kerger, E Paul, J Rautenberg, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, A Weber, H Wieber, DS Bailey, O Barret, NH Brook, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, E Rodrigues, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, HY Jeoung, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, KJ Ma, MY Pac, A Caldwell, W Liu, X Liu, B Mellado, S Paganis, S Sampson, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Klimek, K Olkiewicz, K Piotrzkowski, MB Przybycień, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, B Bednarek, K Jeleń, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, T Kowalski, E Rulikowska-Zarebska, L Suszycki, D Szuba
Abstract:
Differential cross sections for dijet photoproduction in association with a leading neutron using the reaction e+ + p → e+ + n + jet + jet + Xr have been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 6.4 pb-1. The fraction of dijet events with a leading neutron in the final state was studied as a function of the jet kinematic variables. The cross sections were measured for jet transverse energies Ejet T > 6 GeV, neutron energy En > 400 GeV, and neutron production angle θn < 0.8 mrad. The data are broadly consistent with factorization of the lepton and hadron vertices and with a simple one-pion-exchange model. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.