Measurement of the reaction γ∗p→φp in deep inelastic e+p scattering at HERA

Physics Letters B Elsevier 380:1-2 (1996) 220-234

Authors:

ZEUS Collaboration, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, D Mikunas, B Musgrave, JR Okrasinski, J Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, H Zhang, MCK Mattingly, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, P Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, I Gialas, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Polini, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, J Crittenden, R Deffner, T Doeker, M Eckert, L Feld, A Frey, M Geerts, M Grothe, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, L Heinz, E Hilger, H-P Jakob, UF Katz, S Mengel, E Paul, M Pfeiffer, Ch Rembser, D Schramm, J Stamm, R Wedemeyer, S Campbell-Robson, A Cassidy, WN Cottingham, N Dyce, B Foster, S George, ME Hayes, GP Heath, HF Heath, D Piccioni, DG Roff, RJ Tapper, R Yoshida, M Arneodo, R Ayad, M Capua, A Garfagnini, L Iannotti, M Schioppa, G Susinno, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, Z Jing, W Liu, JA Parsons, S Ritz, F Sciulli, PB Straub, L Wai, S Yang, Q Zhu, P Borzemski, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, Z Jakubowski, MB Przybycień, M Zachara, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, B Bednarek, K Jeleń, D Kisielewska, T Kowalski, M Przybycień, E Rulikowska-Zarȩbska, L Suszycki, J Zaja̧c, Z Duliński, A Kotański, G Abbiendi, LAT Bauerdick, U Behrens, H Beier, JK Bienlein, G Cases, O Deppe, K Desler, G Drews, M Flasiński, DJ Gilkinson, C Glasman, P Göttlicher, J Große-Knetter, T Haas, W Hain, D Hasell, H Heßling, Y Iga, KF Johnson, P Joos, M Kasemann, R Klanner, W Koch, U Kötz, H Kowalski, J Labs, A Ladage, B Löhr, M Löwe, D Lüke, J Mainusch, O Mańczak, J Milewski, T Monteiro, JST Ng, D Notz, K Ohrenberg, K Piotrzkowski, M Roco, M Rohde, J Roldán, U Schneekloth, W Schulz, F Selonke, B Surrow, T Voß, D Westphal, G Wolf, U Wollmer, C Youngman, W Zeuner, HJ Grabosch, A Kharchilava, SM Mari, A Meyer, S Schlenstedt, N Wulff, G Barbagli, E Gallo, P Pelfer, G Maccarrone, S De Pasquale, L Votano, A Bamberger, S Eisenhardt, T Trefzger, S Wölfle, JT Bromley, NH Brook, PJ Bussey, AT Doyle, DH Saxon, LE Sinclair, ML Utley, AS Wilson, A Dannemann, U Holm, D Horstmann, R Sinkus, K Wick, BD Burow, L Hagge, E Lohrmann, N Pavel, G Poelz, W Schott, F Zetsche, TC Bacon, N Brümmer, I Butterworth, VL Harris, G Howell, BHY Hung, L Lamberti, KR Long, DB Miller, A Prinias, JK Sedgbeer, D Sideris, AF Whitfield, U Mallik, MZ Wang, SM Wang, JT Wu, P Cloth, D Filges, SH An, GH Cho, BJ Ko, SB Lee, SW Nam, HS Park, SK Park, S Kartik, H-J Kim, RR McNeil, W Metcalf, VK Nadendla, F Barreiro, JP Fernandez, R Graciani, JM Hernández, L Hervás, L Labarga, M Martinez, J del Peso, J Puga, J Terron, JF de Trocóniz, F Corriveau, DS Hanna, J Hartmann, LW Hung, JN Lim, CG Matthews, PM Patel, M Riveline, DG Stairs, M St-Laurent, R Ullmann, G Zacek, T Tsurugai, V Bashkirov, BA Dolgoshein, A Stifutkin, GL Bashindzhagyan, PF Ermolov, LK Gladilin, Yu A Golubkov, VD Kobrin, IA Korzhavina, VA Kuzmin, O Yu Lukina, AS Proskuryakov, AA Savin, LM Shcheglova, AN Solomin, NP Zotov, M Botje, F Chlebana, J Engelen, M de Kamps, P Kooijman, A Kruse, A van Sighem, H Tiecke, W Verkerke, J Vossebeld, M Vreeswijk, L Wiggers, E de Wolf, R van Woudenberg, D Acosta, B Bylsma, LS Durkin, J Gilmore, C Li, TY Ling, P Nylander, IH Park, TA Romanowski, DS Bailey, RJ Cashmore, AM Cooper-Sarkar, RCE Devenish, N Harnew, M Lancaster, L Lindemann, JD McFall, C Nath, VA Noyes, A Quadt, JR Tickner, H Uijterwaal, R Walczak, DS Waters, FF Wilson, T Yip, A Bertolin, R Brugnera, R Carlin, F Dal Corso, M De Giorgi, U Dosselli, S Limentani, M Morandin, M Posocco, L Stanco, R Stroili, C Voci, F Zuin, J Bulmahn, RG Feild, BY Oh, JJ Whitmore, G D'Agostini, G Marini, A Nigro, E Tassi, JC Hart, NA McCubbin, TP Shah, E Barberis, T Dubbs, C Heusch, M Van Hook, W Lockman, JT Rahn, HF-W Sadrozinski, A Seiden, DC Williams, J Biltzinger, RJ Seifert, O Schwarzer, AH Walenta, G Zech, H Abramowicz, G Briskin, S Dagan, A Levy, JI Fleck, M Inuzuka, T Ishii, M Kuze, S Mine, M Nakao, I Suzuki, K Tokushuku, K Umemori, S Yamada, Y Yamazaki, M Chiba, R Hamatsu, T Hirose, K Homma, S Kitamura, T Matsushita, K Yamauchi, R Cirio, M Costa, MI Ferrero, S Maselli, C Peroni, R Sacchi, A Solano, A Staiano, M Dardo, DC Bailey, F Benard, M Brkic, C-P Fagerstroem, GF Hartner, KK Joo, GM Levman, JF Martin, RS Orr, S Polenz, CR Sampson, D Simmons, RJ Teuscher, JM Butterworth, CD Catterall, TW Jones, PB Kaziewicz, JB Lane, RL Saunders, J Shulman, MR Sutton, B Lu, LW Mo, W Bogusz, J Ciborowski, J Gajewski, G Grzelak, M Kasprzak, M Krzyżanowski, K Muchorowski, RJ Nowak, JM Pawlak, T Tymieniecka, AK Wróblewski, JA Zakrzewski, AF Żarnecki, M Adamus, C Coldewey, Y Eisenberg, D Hochman, U Karshon, D Revel, D Zer-Zion, WF Badgett, J Breitweg, D Chapin, R Cross, S Dasu, C Foudas, RJ Loveless, S Mattingly, DD Reeder, S Silverstein, WH Smith, A Vaiciulis, M Wodarczyk, S Bhadra, ML Cardy, WR Frisken, M Khakzad, WN Murray, WB Schmidke

Abstract:

The production of φ mesons in the reaction e+p → e+φp (φ → K+K−), for 7 < Q2 < 25 GeV2 and virtual photon-proton centre of mass energies (W) in the range 42–134 GeV, has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA. When compared to lower energy data at similar Q2, the results show that the γ∗p → φp cross section rises strongly with W. This behaviour is similar to that previously found for the γ∗p → ϱ0p cross section. This strong dependence cannot be explained by production through soft pomeron exchange. It is, however, consistent with perturbative QCD expectations, where it reflects the rise of the gluon momentum density in the proton at small x. The ratio of σ(φ)σ(ϱ0), which has previously been determined by ZEUS to be 0.065 ± 0.013 (stat.) in photoproduction at a mean W of 70 GeV, is measured to be 0.18 ± 0.05 (stat.) ± 0.03 (syst.) at a mean Q2 of 12.3 GeV2 and mean W of ≈ 100 GeV and is thus approaching at large Q2 the value of 29 predicted from the quark charges of the vector mesons and a flavour independent production mechanism.

Study of Charged-Current ep Interactions at Q2 > 200 GeV2 with the ZEUS Detector at HERA

ArXiv hep-ex/9606014 (1996)

Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current B Meson Decays in pp¯ Collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 76:25 (1996) 4675-4680

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, C Anway-Wiese, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, J Bao, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, E Barzi, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, J Bensinger, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, W Bokhari, V Bolognesi, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, J Cammerata, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, Y Cen, F Cervelli, HY Chao, J Chapman, M-T Cheng, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, CN Chiou, L Christofek, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, C Couyoumtzelis, D Crane, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, JD Cunningham, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Delchamps, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, B Denby, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, JR Dittmann, S Donati, J Done, T Dorigo, A Dunn, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, R Ely, E Engels, D Errede, S Errede, Q Fan, I Fiori, B Flaugher, GW Foster, M Franklin, M Frautschi, J Freeman, J Friedman, TA Fuess, Y Fukui, S Funaki, G Gagliardi, S Galeotti, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, S Geer, DW Gerdes, P Giannetti, N Giokaris, P Giromini, L Gladney, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Gonzalez, A Gordon, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, H Grassmann, L Groer, C Grosso-Pilcher, G Guillian, RS Guo, C Haber, E Hafen, SR Hahn, R Hamilton, R Handler, RM Hans, K Hara, AD Hardman, B Harral, RM Harris, SA Hauger, J Hauser, C Hawk, E Hayashi, J Heinrich, KD Hoffman, M Hohlmann, C Holck, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, A Hölscher, S Hong, G Houk, P Hu, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, J Hylen, H Ikeda, M Incagli, J Incandela, G Introzzi, J Iwai, Y Iwata, H Jensen, U Joshi, RW Kadel, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, T Kaneko, K Karr, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, L Keeble, K Kelley, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, P Kesten, D Kestenbaum, RM Keup, H Keutelian, F Keyvan, B Kharadia, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, L Kirsch, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, S Kopp, K Kordas, W Koska, E Kovacs, W Kowald, M Krasberg, J Kroll, M Kruse, T Kuwabara, SE Kuhlmann, E Kuns, AT Laasanen, N Labanca, S Lammel, JI Lamoureux, T LeCompte, S Leone, JD Lewis, P Limon, M Lindgren, TM Liss, N Lockyer, O Long, C Loomis, M Loreti, J Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, J Lys, K Maeshima, A Maghakian, P Maksimovic, M Mangano, J Mansour, M Mariotti, JP Marriner, A Martin, JAJ Matthews, R Mattingly, P McIntyre, P Melese, A Menzione, E Meschi, S Metzler, C Miao, G Michail, R Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, H Mitsushio, T Miyamoto, S Miyashita, Y Morita, J Mueller, A Mukherjee, T Muller, P Murat, H Nakada, I Nakano, C Nelson, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, M Ninomiya, L Nodulman, SH Oh, KE Ohl, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, M Okabe, T Okusawa, R Oliver, J Olsen, C Pagliarone, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, SP Pappas, S Park, A Parri, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, A Perazzo, L Pescara, MD Peters, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, M Pillai, KT Pitts, R Plunkett, L Pondrom, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, K Ragan, A Ribon, F Rimondi, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, J Romano, L Rosenson, R Roser, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, A Sansoni, L Santi, H Sato, V Scarpine, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, A Scribano, S Segler, S Seidel, Y Seiya, G Sganos, A Sgolacchia, MD Shapiro, NM Shaw, Q Shen, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, J Skarha, K Sliwa, FD Snider, T Song, J Spalding, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, L Stanco, J Steele, A Stefanini, K Strahl, J Strait, R Ströhmer, D Stuart, G Sullivan, A Soumarokov, K Sumorok, J Suzuki, T Takada, T Takahashi, T Takano, K Takikawa, N Tamura, F Tartarelli, W Taylor, PK Teng, Y Teramoto, S Tether, D Theriot, TL Thomas, R Thun, M Timko, P Tipton, A Titov, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, J Tonnison, JF de Troconiz, S Truitt, J Tseng, N Turini, T Uchida, N Uemura, F Ukegawa, G Unal, SC van den Brink, S Vejcik, G Velev, R Vidal, M Vondracek, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wahl, C Wang, CH Wang, G Wang, J Wang, MJ Wang, QF Wang, A Warburton, T Watts, R Webb, C Wei, C Wendt, H Wenzel, WC Wester, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, R Wilkinson, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, X Wu, J Wyss, A Yagil, W Yao, K Yasuoka, Y Ye, GP Yeh, P Yeh, M Yin, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, D Yovanovitch, I Yu, L Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, F Zetti, L Zhang, W Zhang, S Zucchelli

Observation of Events with an Energetic Forward Neutron in Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA

ArXiv hep-ex/9606006 (1996)

Authors:

ZEUS Collaboration, M Derrick et al

Measurement of elastic φ photoproduction at HERA

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 377:4 (1996) 259-272

Authors:

M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, D Mikunas, B Musgrave, JR Okrasinski, J Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, H Zhang, MCK Mattingly, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, R Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, I Gialas, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Polini, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, A Bornheim, J Crittenden, T Doeker, M Eckert, L Feld, A Frey, M Geerts, M Grothe, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, L Heinz, E Hilger, HP Jakob, UF Katz, S Mengel, J Mollen, E Paul, M Pfeiffer, C Rembser, D Schramm, J Stamm, R Wedemeyer, S Campbell-Robson, A Cassidy, WN Cottingham, N Dyce, B Foster, S George, ME Hayes, GP Heath, HF Heath, D Piccioni, DG Roff, RJ Tapper, R Yoshida, M Arneodo, R Ayad, M Capua, A Garfagnini, L Iannotti, M Schioppa, G Susinno, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, Z Jing, W Liu, JA Parsons, S Ritz, F Sciulli, PB Straub, L Wai, S Yang, Q Zhu, P Borzemski, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, M Zachara, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, B Bednarek, K Jeleń, D Kisielewska, T Kowalski

Abstract:

The production of φ mesons in the reaction e+p → e+φp (φ → K+K-) at a median Q2 of 10-4 GeV2 has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The differential φ photoproduction cross section dσ/dt has an exponential shape and has been determined in the kinematic range 0.1 < |t| < 0.5 GeV2 and 60 < W < 80 GeV. An integrated cross section of σγp→φp = 0.96 ± 0.19+0.21-.18 μb has been obtained by extrapolating to t = 0. When compared to lower energy data, the results show a weak energy dependence of both σγp→φp and the slope of the t distribution. The φ decay angular distributions are consistent with s-channel helicity conservation. From lower energies to HERA energies, the features of φ photoproduction are compatible with those of a soft diffractive process.