Scaled momentum distributions for K S 0 and ∧/∧ in DIS at HERA
Journal of High Energy Physics 2012:3 (2012)
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Scaled momentum distributions for the strange hadrons K S0 and ∧/∧were measured in deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 330 pb -1. The evolution of these distributions with the photon virtuality, Q 2, was studied in the kinematic region 10 < Q 2 < 40000 GeV 2 and 0.001 < x < 0.75, where x is the Bjorken scaling variable. Clear scaling violations are observed. Predictions based on different approaches to fragmentation were compared to the measurements. Leading-logarithm parton-shower Monte Carlo calculations interfaced to the Lund string fragmentation model describe the data reasonably well in the whole range measured. Nextto-leading-order QCD calculations based on fragmentation functions, FFs, extracted from e +e - data alone, fail to describe the measurements. The calculations based on FFs extracted from a global analysis including e +e -, ep and pp data give an improved description. The measurements presented in this paper have the potential to further constrain the FFs of quarks, anti-quarks and gluons yielding K S0 and ∧/∧ strange hadrons. © SISSA 2012.Angular correlations in three-jet events in ep collisions at HERA
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 85:5 (2012)
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Three-jet production in deep inelastic ep scattering and photoproduction was investigated with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of up to 127pb-1. Measurements of differential cross sections are presented as functions of angular correlations between the three jets in the final state and the proton-beam direction. These correlations provide a stringent test of perturbative QCD and show sensitivity to the contributions from different color configurations. Fixed-order perturbative calculations assuming the values of the color factors CF, CA, and TF as derived from a variety of gauge groups were compared to the measurements to study the underlying gauge group symmetry. The measured angular correlations in the deep inelastic ep scattering and photoproduction regimes are consistent with the admixture of color configurations as predicted by SU(3) and disfavour other symmetry groups, such as SU(N) in the limit of large N. © 2012 American Physical Society.Quasi-phase-matching high harmonic generation using trains of pulses produced using an array of birefringent plates.
Opt Express 20:6 (2012) 6236-6247
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Quasi-phase-matched high harmonic generation using trains of up to 8 counter-propagating pulses is explored. For trains of up to 4 pulses the measured enhancement of the harmonic signal scales with the number of pulses N as (N + 1)², as expected. However, for trains with N > 4, no further enhancement of the harmonic signal is observed. This effect is ascribed to changes of the coherence length Lc within the generating medium. Techniques for overcoming the variation of Lc are discussed. The pressure dependence of quasi-phase-matching is investigated and the switch from true-phase-matching to quasi-phase-matching is observed.Measurement of the t dependence in exclusive photoproduction of Υ{hooked} (1S) mesons at HERA
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 708:1-2 (2012) 14-20
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The exclusive photoproduction reaction γp→Υ{hooked} (1S)p has been studied with the ZEUS detector in ep collisions at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 468 pb -1. The measurement covers the kinematic range 60Search for single-top production in ep collisions at HERA
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 708:1-2 (2012) 27-36