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Measurement of dijet photoproduction for events with a leading neutron at HERA

Nuclear Physics B 827:1-2 (2010) 1-33

Authors:

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, WATW 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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Differential cross sections for dijet photoproduction and this process in association with a leading neutron, e ++p→e ++jet+jet+X(+n), have been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 40 pb -1. The fraction of dijet events with a leading neutron was studied as a function of different jet and event variables. Single- and double-differential cross sections are presented as a function of the longitudinal fraction of the proton momentum carried by the leading neutron, x L, and of its transverse momentum squared, pT2. The dijet data are compared to inclusive DIS and photoproduction results; they are all consistent with a simple pion-exchange model. The neutron yield as a function of x L was found to depend only on the fraction of the proton beam energy going into the forward region, independent of the hard process. No firm conclusion can be drawn on the presence of rescattering effects. © 2009 Elsevier B.V.
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Generation and control of chirped, ultrafast pulse trains

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 12:1 (2010)

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K O'Keeffe, T Robinson, SM Hooker

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A method for generating non-uniformly spaced (chirped) trains of high-energy, high-contrast, femtosecond pulses is described and demonstrated. In this method a temporally stretched laser pulse is passed through an acousto-optic programmable dispersive filter (AOPDF), a birefringent plate, and a linear polarizer. It is demonstrated that linear and nonlinear variation of the pulse separation within the train may be controlled by changing respectively the third-and fourth-order dispersion introduced by the AOPDF. Programmable, non-uniform pulse trains of this type may find applications in quasi-phase matching high-harmonic generation. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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Events with an isolated lepton and missing transverse momentum and measurement of W production at HERA

Journal of High Energy Physics 2010:3 (2010)

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FD Aaron, H Abramowicz, I Abt, L Adamczyk, M Adamus, M Aldaya 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 Bołd, 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, KB Cantun 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 Deák, J de Favereau, B Delcourt, M Del Degan, J del Peso, J Delvax

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A search for events containing an isolated electron or muon and missing transverse momentum produced in e±p collisions is performed with the H1 and ZEUS detectors at HERA. The data were taken in the period 1994-2007 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 0.98 fb-1. The observed event yields are in good overall agreement with the Standard Model prediction, which is dominated by single W production. In the e+p data, at large hadronic transverse momentum PTX < 25GeV, a total of 23 events are observed compared to a prediction of 14.0 ±1.9. The total single W boson production cross section is measured as 1.06 ± 0.16 (stat.) ± 0.07 (sys.) pb, in agreement with an Standard Model (SM) expectation of 1.26 ± 0.19 pb.
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Measurement of D+ and Λc+ production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

Journal of High Energy Physics 2010:11 (2010)

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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, 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-Bołd, J Grebenyuk, I Gregor

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Charm production in deep inelastic scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb-1. The hadronic decay channels D+ → KS0π+, Λc+ → pKS0 and Λc+ → Λπ+, and their charge conjugates, were reconstructed. The presence of a neutral strange hadron in the final state reduces the combinatorial background and extends the measured sensitivity into the low transverse momentum region. The kinematic range is 0 < pT (D+,Λc+ ) < 10GeV, |η(D+,Λc+ )| < 1.6, 1.5 < Q2 < 1000GeV2 and 0.02 < y < 0.7. Inclusive and differential cross sections for the production of D+ mesons are compared to next-to-leading-order QCD predictions. The fraction of c quarks hadronising into Λc+ baryons is extracted.
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Measurement of J/ψ photoproduction at large momentum transfer at HERA

Journal of High Energy Physics 2010:5 (2010)

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S Chekanov, M Derrick, S Magill, B Musgrave, D Nicholass, J Repond, R Yoshida, 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 Jüingst, 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, E Lobodzinska

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The proton-dissociative diffractive photoproduction of J/ψ mesons has been studied in ep collisions with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 112 pb-1. The cross section is presented as a function of the photon-proton centre-ofmass energy and of the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex. The results are compared to perturbative QCD calculations.
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