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First milestone on the path toward a table-top free-electron laser (FEL)

AIP Conference Proceedings 1228 (2010) 295-300

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M Fuchs, R Weingartner, A Popp, Z Major, S Becker, J Osterhoff, T Seggebrock, R Hörlein, GD Tsakiris, U Schramm, TP Rowlands-Rees, SM Hooker, D Habs, F Krausz, S Karsch, F Grüner

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Latest developments in the field of laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) have led to relatively stable electron beams in terms of peak energy, charge, pointing and divergence from mmsized accelerators. Simulations and LWFA theory indicate that these beams have low transverse emittances and ultrashort bunch durations on the order of ∼ 10 fs. These features make LWFAs perfectly suitable for driving high-brightness X-ray undulator sources and free-electron lasers (FELs) on a university-laboratory scale.With the detection of soft-X-ray radiation from an undulator source driven by laser-wakefield accelerated electrons, we succeeded in achieving a first milestone on this path. The source delivers remarkably stable photon beams which is mainly due to the stable electron beam and our miniature magnetic quadrupole lenses, which significantly reduce its divergence and angular shot-to-shot variation. An increase in electron energy allows for compact, tunable, hard-Xray undulator sources. Improvements of the electron beams in terms of charge and energy spread will put table-top FELs within reach. © 2010 American Institute of Physids.
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Measurement of beauty production in DIS and F2bb̄ extraction at ZEUS: The ZEUS Collaboration

European Physical Journal C 69:3 (2010) 347-360

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H Abramowicz, I Abt, L Adamczyk, M Adamus, R Aggarwal, S Antonelli, P Antonioli, A Antonov, M Arneodo, V Aushev, Y Aushev, O Bachynska, A Bamberger, AN Barakbaev, G Barbagli, G Bari, F Barreiro, D Bartsch, M Basile, O Behnke, J Behr, U Behrens, L Bellagamba, A Bertolin, S Bhadra, M Bindi, C Blohm, T Bold, EG Boos, M Borodin, K Borras, D Boscherini, D Bot, SK Boutle, I Brock, E Brownson, R Brugnera, N Brümmer, A Bruni, G Bruni, B Brzozowska, PJ Bussey, JM Butterworth, B Bylsma, A Caldwell, M Capua, R Carlin, CD Catterall, S Chekanov, J Chwastowski, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, AM Cooper-Sarkar, N Coppola, M Corradi, F Corriveau, M Costa, G D'Agostini, F Dal Corso, J de Favereau, J del Peso, RK Dementiev, S De Pasquale, M Derrick, RCE Devenish, D Dobur, BA Dolgoshein, AT Doyle, V Drugakov, LS Durkin, S Dusini, Y Eisenberg, PF Ermolov, A Eskreys, S Fang, S Fazio, J Ferrando, MI Ferrero, J Figiel, M Forrest, B Foster, S Fourletov, G Gach, A Galas, E Gallo, A Garfagnini, A Geiser, I Gialas, LK Gladilin, D Gladkov, C Glasman, O Gogota, YA Golubkov, P Göttlicher, I Grabowska-Bold, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor

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Beauty production in deep inelastic scattering with events in which a muon and a jet are observed in the final state has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 114 pb-1. The fraction of events with beauty quarks in the data was determined using the distribution of the transverse momentum of the muon relative to the jet. The cross section for beauty production was measured in the kinematic range of photon virtuality, Q2>2 GeV2, and inelasticity, 0.05
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Combined measurement and QCD analysis of the inclusive e ±p scattering cross sections at HERA

Journal of High Energy Physics 2010:1 (2010)

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FD Aaron, H Abramowicz, I Abt, L Adamczyk, M Adamus, M Al-Daya Martin, C Alexa, V Andreev, S Antonelli, P Antonioli, A Antonov, B Antunovic, M Arneodo, V Aushev, O Bachynska, S Backovic, A Baghdasaryan, A Bamberger, AN Barakbaev, G Barbagli, G Bari, F Barreiro, E Barrelet, W Bartel, D Bartsch, M Basile, K Begzsuren, O Behnke, J Behr, U Behrens, L Bellagamba, A Belousov, A Bertolin, S Bhadra, M Bindi, JC Bizot, C Blohm, T Bold, EG Boos, M Borodin, K Borras, D Boscherini, D Bot, V Boudry, SK Boutle, I Bozovic-Jelisavcic, J Bracinik, G Brandt, M Brinkmann, V Brisson, I Brock, E Brownson, R Brugnera, N Brümmer, D Bruncko, A Bruni, G Bruni, B Brzozowska, A Bunyatyan, G Buschhorn, PJ Bussey, JM Butterworth, B Bylsma, L Bystritskaya, A Caldwell, AJ Campbell, KBC Avila, M Capua, R Carlin, CD Catterall, K Cerny, V Cerny, S Chekanov, V Chekelian, A Cholewa, J Chwastowski, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, JG Contreras, AM Cooper-Sarkar, N Coppola, M Corradi, F Corriveau, M Costa, JA Coughlan, G Cozzika, J Cvach, G D'Agostini, JB Dainton, F Dal Corso, K Daum, M Deak, J De Favereau, B Delcourt, J Del Peso, J Delvax, RK Dementiev

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A combination is presented of the inclusive deep inelastic cross sections measured by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations in neutral and charged current unpolarised e±p scattering at HERA during the period 1994-2000. The data span six orders of magnitude in negative four-momentum-transfer squared, Q2, and in Bjorken x. The combination method used takes the correlations of systematic uncertainties into account, resulting in an improved accuracy. The combined data are the sole input in a NLO QCD analysis which determines a new set of parton distributions, HERAPDF1.0, with small experimental uncertainties. This set includes an estimate of the model and parametrisation uncertainties of the fit result.
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Inclusive-jet cross sections in NC DIS at HERA and a comparison of the kT, anti-kT and SIScone jet algorithms

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 691:3 (2010) 127-137

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H Abramowicz, I Abt, L Adamczyk, M Adamus, R Aggarwal, S Antonelli, P Antonioli, A Antonov, M Arneodo, V Aushev, Y Aushev, O Bachynska, A Bamberger, AN Barakbaev, G Barbagli, G Bari, F Barreiro, D Bartsch, M Basile, O Behnke, J Behr, U Behrens, L Bellagamba, A Bertolin, S Bhadra, M Bindi, C Blohm, T Bołd, EG Boos, M Borodin, K Borras, D Boscherini, D Bot, SK Boutle, I Brock, E Brownson, R Brugnera, N Brümmer, A Bruni, G Bruni, B Brzozowska, PJ Bussey, JM Butterworth, B Bylsma, A Caldwell, M Capua, R Carlin, CD Catterall, S Chekanov, J Chwastowski, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, AM Cooper-Sarkar, N Coppola, M Corradi, F Corriveau, M Costa, G D'Agostini, FD Corso, J de Favereau, J de Peso, RK Dementiev, S De Pasquale, M Derrick, RCE Devenish, D Dobur, BA Dolgoshein, AT Doyle, V Drugakov, LS Durkin, S Dusini, Y Eisenberg, PF Ermolov, A Eskreys, S Fang, S Fazio, J Ferrando, MI Ferrero, J Figiel, M Forrest, B Foster, S Fourletov, G Gach, A Galas, E Gallo, A Garfagnini, A Geiser, I Gialas, LK Gladilin, D Gladkov, C Glasman, O Gogota, Y Golubkov, P Göttlicher, I Grabowska-Bołd, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor

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For the first time, differential inclusive-jet cross sections have been measured in neutral current deep inelastic ep scattering using the anti-kT and SIScone algorithms. The measurements were made for boson virtualities Q2>125 GeV2 with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 82 pb-1 and the jets were identified in the Breit frame. The performance and suitability of the jet algorithms for their use in hadron-like reactions were investigated by comparing the measurements to those performed with the kT algorithm. Next-to-leading-order QCD calculations give a good description of the measurements. Measurements of the ratios of cross sections using different jet algorithms are also presented; the measured ratios are well described by calculations including up to O(αs3) terms. Values of αs(MZ) were extracted from the data; the results are compatible with and have similar precision to the value extracted from the kT analysis. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
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A QCD analysis of ZEUS diffractive data

Nuclear Physics B 831:1-2 (2010) 1-25

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S Chekanov, M Derrick, S Magill, B Musgrave, D Nicholass, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, F Cindolo, M Corradi, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, R Nania, A Polini, S Antonelli, M Basile, M Bindi, L Cifarelli, A Contin, S De Pasquale, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, D Bartsch, I Brock, H Hartmann, E Hilger, HP Jakob, M Jüngst, AE Nuncio-Quiroz, E Paul, U Samson, V Schönberg, R Shehzadi, M Wlasenko, JD Morris, M Kaur, P Kaur, I Singh, M Capua, S Fazio, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, E Tassi, JY Kim, ZA Ibrahim, FM Idris, B Kamaluddin, WAT Wan Abdullah, Y Ning, Z Ren, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, A Galas, K Olkiewicz, B Pawlik, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bołd, I Grabowska-Bołd, D Kisielewska, J Łukasik, M Przybycień, L Suszycki, A Kotański, W Słomiński, O Bachynska, O Behnke, J Behr, U Behrens, C Blohm, K Borras, D Bot, R Ciesielski, N Coppola, S Fang, A Geiser, P Göttlicher, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor, T Haas, W Hain, A Hüttmann, F Januschek, B Kahle, II Katkov, U Klein, U Kötz, H Kowalski, V Libov, M Lisovyi

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ZEUS inclusive diffractive-cross-section measurements have been used in a DGLAP next-to-leading-order QCD analysis to extract the diffractive parton distribution functions. Data on diffractive dijet production in deep inelastic scattering have also been included to constrain the gluon density. Predictions based on the extracted parton densities are compared to diffractive charm and dijet photoproduction data. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
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