Observation of CP violation in the B0 meson system - art. no. 091801

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 87:9 (2001) ARTN 091801

Authors:

B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, PL Reinertsen, B Stugu, B Abbott, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, AR Clark, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, S Kluth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C LeClerc, ME Levi, T Liu, G Lynch, AB Meyer, M Momayezi, PJ Oddone, A Perazzo, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, MS Zisman, PG Bright-Thomas, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O'Neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, J Krug, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, JC Andress, NR Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, N De Groot, N Dyce, B Foster, JD McFall, D Wallom, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, J Tinslay, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, AA Salnikov, SI Serednyakov, YL Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, DP Stoker, A Ahsan, K Arisaka, C Buchanan, S Chun, JG Branson, DB MacFarlane, S Prell, S Rahatlou, G Raven, V Sharma, C Campagnari, B Dahmes, PA Hart, N Kuznetsova, SL Levy, O Long, A Lu, JD Richman, W Verkerke, M Witherell, S Yellin, J Beringer, DE Dorfan, AM Eisner, A Frey, AA Grillo, M Grothe, CA Heusch, RP Johnson, W Kroeger, WS Lockman, T Pulliam, H Sadrozinski, T Schalk, RE Schmitz, BA Schumm, A Seiden, M Turri, W Walkowiak, DC Williams, MG Wilson, E Chen, GP Dubois-Felsmann, A Dvoretskii, DG Hitlin, S Metzler, J Oyang, FC Porter, A Ryd, A Samuel, M Weaver, S Yang, RY Zhu, S Devmal, TL Geld, S Jayatilleke, G Mancinelli, BT Meadows, MD Sokoloff, T Barillari, P Bloom, MO Dima, S Fahey, WT Ford, DR Johnson, U Nauenberg, A Olivas, H Park, P Rankin, J Roy, S Sen, JG Smith, WC van Hoek, DL Wagner, J Blouw, JL Harton, M Krishnamurthy, A Soffer, WH Toki, RJ Wilson, J Zhang, T Brandt, J Brose, T Colberg, G Dahlinger, M Dickopp, RS Dubitzky, A Hauke, E Maly, R Müller-Pfefferkorn, S Otto, KR Schubert, R Schwierz, B Spaan, L Wilden, L Behr, D Bernard, GR Bonneaud, F Brochard, J Cohen-Tanugi, S Ferrag, E Roussot, S T'Jampens, C Thiebaux, G Vasileiadis, M Verderi, A Anjomshoaa, R Bernet, A Khan, D Lavin, F Muheim, S Playfer, JE Swain, M Falbo, C Borean, C Bozzi, S Dittongo, M Folegani, L Piemontese, E Treadwell, F Anulli, R Baldini-Ferroli, A Calcaterra, R de Sangro, D Falciai, G Finocchiaro, P Patteri, IM Peruzzi, M Piccolo, Y Xie, A Zallo, S Bagnasco, A Buzzo, R Contri, G Crosetti, P Fabbricatore, S Farinon, M Lo Vetere, M Macri, MR Monge, R Musenich, M Pallavicini, R Parodi, S Passaggio, FC Pastore, C Patrignani, MG Pia, C Priano, E Robutti, A Santroni, M Morii, R Bartoldus, T Dignan, R Hamilton, U Mallik, J Cochran, HB Crawley, RA Fischer, J Lamsa, WT Meyer, EI Rosenberg, M Benkebil, G Grosdidier, C Hast, A Höcker, HM Lacker, S Laplace, V Lepeltier, AM Lutz, S Plaszczynski, MH Schune, S Trincaz-Duvoid, A Valassi, G Wormser, RM Bionta, V Brigljevic, DJ Lange, M Mugge, X Shi, K van Bibber, TJ Wenaus, DM Wright, CR Wuest, M Carroll, JR Fry, E Gabathuler, R Gamet, M George, M Kay, DJ Payne, RJ Sloane, C Touramanis, ML Aspinwall, DA Bowerman, PD Dauncey, U Egede, E Eschrich, NJW Gunawardane, JA Nash, P Sanders, D Smith, DE Azzopardi, JJ Back, P Dixon, PF Harrison, RJL Potter, HW Shorthouse, P Strother, PB Vidal, MI Williams, G Cowan, S George, MG Green, A Kurup, CE Marker, P McGrath, TR McMahon, S Ricciardi, F Salvatore, I Scott, G Vaitsas, D Brown, CL Davis, J Allison, RJ Barlow, JT Boyd, AC Forti, J Fullwood, F Jackson, GD Lafferty, N Savvas, ET Simopoulos, JH Weatherall, A Farbin, A Jawahery, V Lillard, J Olsen, DA Roberts, JR Schieck, G Blaylock, C Dallapiccola, KT Flood, SS Hertzbach, R Kofler, TB Moore, H Staengle, S Willocq, B Brau, R Cowan, G Sciolla, F Taylor, RK Yamamoto, M Milek, PM Patel, J Trischuk, F Lanni, F Palombo, JM Bauer, M Booke, L Cremaldi, V Eschenburg, R Kroeger, J Reidy, DA Sanders, DJ Summers, JP Martin, JY Nief, R Seitz, P Taras, V Zacek, H Nicholson, CS Sutton, C Cartaro, N Cavallo, G De Nardo, F Fabozzi, C Gatto, L Lista, P Paolucci, D Piccolo, C Sciacca, JM LoSecco, JRG Alsmiller, TA Gabriel, T Handler, J Brau, R Frey, M Iwasaki, NB Sinev, D Strom, F Colecchia, F Dal Corso, A Dorigo, F Galeazzi, M Margoni, G Michelon, M Morandin, M Posocco, M Rotondo, F Simonetto, R Stroili, E Torassa, C Voci, M Benayoun, H Briand, J Chauveau, P David, C de la Vaissière, L Del Buono, O Hamon, F Le Diberder, P Leruste, J Lory, L Roos, J Stark, S Versillé, PF Manfredi, V Re, V Speziali, ED Frank, L Gladney, QH Guo, JH Panetta, C Angelini, G Batignani, S Bettarini, M Bondioli, M Carpinelli, F Forti, MA Giorgi, A Lusiani, F Martinez-Vidal, M Morganti, N Neri, E Paoloni, M Rama, G Rizzo, F Sandrelli, G Simi, G Triggiani, J Walsh, M Haire, D Judd, K Paick, L Turnbull, DE Wagoner, J Albert, C Bula, P Elmer, C Lu, KT McDonald, V Miftakov, SF Schaffner, AJS Smith, A Tumanov, EW Varnes, G Cavoto, D del Re, R Faccini, F Ferrarotto, F Ferroni, K Fratini, E Lamanna, E Leonardi, MA Mazzoni, S Morganti, G Piredda, FS Tehrani, M Serra, C Voena, S Christ, R Waldi, T Adye, B Franek, NI Geddes, GP Gopal, SM Xella, R Aleksan, G De Domenico, S Emery, A Gaidot, SF Ganzhur, PF Giraud, GH de Monchenault, W Kozanecki, M Langer, GW London, B Mayer, B Serfass, G Vasseur, C Yèche, M Zito, N Copty, MV Purohit, H Singh, FX Yumiceva, I Adam, PL Anthony, D Aston, K Baird, JP Berger, E Bloom, AM Boyarski, F Bulos, G Calderini, R Claus, MR Convery, DP Coupal, DH Coward, J Dorfan, M Doser, W Dunwoodie, RC Field, T Glanzman, GL Godfrey, SJ Gowdy, P Grosso, T Himel, T Hryn'ova, ME Huffer, WR Innes, CP Jessop, MH Kelsey, P Kim, ML Kocian, U Langenegger, DWGS Leith, S Luitz, V Luth, HL Lynch, H Marsiske, S Menke, R Messner, KC Moffeit, R Mount, DR Muller, CP O'Grady, M Perl, S Petrak, H Quinn, BN Ratcliff, SH Robertson, LS Rochester, A Roodman, T Schietinger, RH Schindler, J Schwiening, JT Seeman, VV Serbo, A Snyder, A Soha, SM Spanier, J Stelzer, D Su, MK Sullivan, HA Tanaka, J Va'vra, SR Wagner, AJR Weinstein, U Wienands, WJ Wisniewski, DH Wright, CC Young, PR Burchat, CH Cheng, D Kirkby, TI Meyer, C Roat, R Henderson, W Bugg, H Cohn, AW Weidemann, JM Izen, I Kitayama, XC Lou, M Turcotte, F Bianchi, M Bona, B Di Girolamo, D Gamba, A Smol, D Zanin, L Bosisio, G Della Ricca, L Lanceri, A Pompili, P Poropat, G Vuagnin, RS Panvini, CM Brown, A De Silva, R Kowalewski, JM Roney, HR Band, E Charles, S Dasu, F Di Lodovico, AM Eichenbaum, H Hu, JR Johnson, R Liu, J Nielsen, Y Pan, R Prepost, IJ Scott, SJ Sekula, JH von Wimmersperg-Toeller, SL Wu, Z Yu, H Zobernig, TMB Kordich, H Neal

Search for the decay B0→γγ -: art. no. 241803

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 87:24 (2001) ARTN 241803

Authors:

B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, PL Reinertsen, B Stugu, B Abbott, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, AR Clark, MS Gill, A Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, S Kluth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C LeClerc, ME Levi, T Liu, G Lynch, AB Meyer, M Momayezi, PJ Oddone, A Perazzo, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, RG Bright-Thomas, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O'Neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, J Krug, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, JC Andress, NR Barlow, N Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, N De Groot, N Dyce, B Foster, JD McFall, D Wallom, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, J Tinslay, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, AA Salnikov, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, DR Stoker, A Ahsan, K Arisaka, C Buchanan, S Chun, JG Branson, DB MacFarlane, S Prell, S Rahatlou, G Raven, V Sharma, C Campagnari, B Dahmes, PA Hart, N Kuznetsova, SL Levy, O Long, A Lu, JD Richman, W Verkerke, M Witherell, S Yellin, J Beringer, DE Dorfan, AM Eisner, A Frey, AA Grillo, M Grothe, CA Heusch, RP Johnson, W Kroeger, WS Lockman, T Pulliam, H Sadrozinski, T Schalk, RE Schmitz, BA Schumm, A Seiden, M Turri, W Walkowiak, DC Williams, MG Wilson, E Chen, GP Dubois-Felsmann, A Dvoretskii, DG Hitlin, S Metzler, J Oyang, FC Porter, A Ryd, A Samuel, M Weaver, S Yang, RY Zhu, S Devmal, TL Geld, S Jayatilleke, G Mancinelli, BT Meadows, MD Sokoloff, T Barillari, P Bloom, MO Dima, S Fahey, WT Ford, DR Johnson, U Nauenberg, A Olivas, H Park, P Rankin, J Roy, S Sen, JG Smith, WC van Hoek, DL Wagner, J Blouw, JL Harton, M Krishnamurthy, A Soffer, WH Toki, RJ Wilson, J Zhang, T Brandt, J Brose, T Colberg, G Dahlinger, M Dickopp, RS Dubitzky, E Maly, R Müller-Pfefferkorn, S Otto, KR Schubert, R Schwierz, B Spaan, L Wilden, L Behr, D Bernard, GR Bonneaud, F Brochard, J Cohen-Tanugi, S Ferrag, E Roussot, S T'Jampens, C Thiebaux, G Vasileiadis, M Verderi, A Anjomshoaa, R Bernet, A Khan, F Muheim, S Playfer, JE Swain, M Falbo, C Borean, C Bozzi, S Dittongo, M Folegani, L Piemontese, E Treadwell, F Anulli, R Baldini-Ferroli, A Calcaterra, R de Sangro, D Falciai, G Finocchiaro, P Patteri, IM Peruzzi, M Piccolo, Y Xie, A Zallo, S Bagnasco, A Buzzo, R Contri, G Crosetti, P Fabbricatore, S Farinon, M Lo Vetere, M Macri, MR Monge, R Musenich, M Pallavicini, R Parodi, S Passaggio, FC Pastore, C Patrignani, MG Pia, C Priano, E Robutti, A Santroni, M Morii, R Bartoldus, T Dignan, R Hamilton, U Mallik, J Cochran, HB Crawley, RA Fischer, J Lamsa, WT Meyer, EI Rosenberg, M Benkebil, G Grosdidier, C Hast, A Höcker, HM Lacker, S Laplace, V Lepeltier, AM Lutz, S Plaszczynski, MH Schune, S Trincaz-Duvoid, A Valassi, G Wormser, RM Bionta, V Brigljevic, DJ Lange, M Mugge, X Shi, K van Bibber, TJ Wenaus, DM Wright, CR Wuest, M Carroll, JR Fry, E Gabathuler, R Gamet, M George, M Kay, DJ Payne, RJ Sloane, C Touramanis, ML Aspinwall, DA Bowerman, PD Dauncey, U Egede, I Eschrich, NJW Gunawardane, JA Nash, R Sanders, D Smith, DE Azzopardi, JJ Back, P Dixon, PF Harrison, RJL Potter, HW Shorthouse, P Strother, PB Vidal, MI Williams, G Cowan, S George, MG Green, A Kurup, CE Marker, P McGrath, TR McMahon, S Ricciardi, F Salvatore, I Scott, G Vaitsas, D Brown, CL Davis, J Allison, RJ Barlow, JT Boyd, AC Forti, J Fullwood, F Jackson, GD Lafferty, N Savvas, ET Simopoulos, JH Weatherall, A Farbin, A Jawahery, V Lilllard, J Olsen, DA Roberts, JR Schieck, G Blaylock, C Dallapiccola, KT Flood, SS Hertzbach, R Kofler, TB Moore, H Staengle, S Willocq, B Brau, R Cowan, G Sciolla, F Taylor, RK Yamamoto, M Milek, PM Patel, J Trischuk, F Lanni, F Palombo, JM Bauer, M Booke, L Cremaldi, V Eschenburg, R Kroger, J Reidy, DA Sanders, DJ Summers, JR Martin, JY Nief, R Seitz, P Taras, V Zacek, H Nicholson, CS Sutton, C Cartaro, N Cavallo, G De Nardo, F Fabozzi, C Gatto, L Lista, R Paolucci, D Piccolo, C Sciacca, JM LoSecco, JRG Alsmiller, TA Gabriel, T Handler, J Brau, R Frey, M Iwasaki, NB Sinev, D Strom, F Colecchia, F Dal Corso, A Dorigo, F Galeazzi, M Margoni, G Michelon, M Morandin, M Posocco, M Rotondo, F Simonetto, R Stroili, E Torassa, C Voci, M Benayoun, H Briand, J Chauveau, P David, C de la Vaissière, L Del Buono, O Hamon, F Le Diberder, P Leruste, J Lory, L Roos, J Stark, S Versillé, PF Manfredi, V Re, V Speziali, ED Frank, L Gladney, QH Guo, JH Panetta, C Angelini, G Batignani, S Bettarini, M Bondioli, M Carpinelli, F Forti, MA Giorgi, A Lusiani, F Martinez-Vidal, M Morganti, N Neri, E Paoloni, M Rama, G Rizzo, F Sandrelli, G Simi, G Triggiani, J Walsh, M Haire, D Judd, K Paick, L Turnbull, DE Wagoner, J Albert, C Bula, P Elmer, C Lu, KT McDonald, V Miftakov, SF Schaffner, AJS Smith, A Tumanov, EW Varnes, G Cavoto, D del Re, R Faccini, F Ferrarotto, F Ferroni, K Fratini, E Lamanna, E Leonardi, MA Mazzoni, S Morganti, G Piredda, FS Tehrani, M Serra, C Voena, S Christ, R Waldi, T Adye, B Franek, NI Geddes, GP Gopal, SM Xella, R Aleksan, G De Domenico, S Emery, A Gaidot, SF Ganzhur, PF Giraud, GH de Monchenault, W Kozanecki, M Langer, GW London, B Mayer, B Serfass, G Vasseur, C Yéche, M Zito, N Copty, MV Purohit, H Singh, FX Yumiceva, I Adam, PL Anthony, D Aston, K Baird, E Bloom, AM Boyarski, F Bulos, G Calderini, R Claus, MR Convery, DP Coupal, DH Coward, J Dorfan, M Doser, W Dunwoodie, RC Field, T Glanzman, GL Godfrey, SJ Gowdy, P Grosso, T Himel, ME Huffer, WR Innes, CP Jessop, MH Kelsey, P Kim, ML Kocian, U Langenegger, DWGS Leith, S Luitz, V Luth, HL Lynch, H Marsiske, S Menke, R Messner, KC Moffeit, R Mount, DR Muller, CP O'Grady, M Perl, S Petrak, H Quinn, BN Ratcliff, SH Robertson, LS Rochester, A Roodman, T Schietinger, RH Schindler, J Schwiening, VV Serbo, A Snyder, A Soha, SM Spanier, J Stelzer, D Su, MK Sullivan, HA Tanaka, J Va'vra, SR Wagner, AJR Weinstein, WJ Wisniewski, DH Wright, CC Young, PR Burchat, CH Cheng, D Kirkby, TI Meyer, C Roat, A De Silva, R Henderson, W Bugg, H Cohn, AW Weidemann, JM Izen, I Kitayama, XC Lou, M Turcotte, F Bianchi, M Bona, B Di Girolamo, D Gamba, A Smol, D Zanin, L Bosisio, G Della Ricca, L Lanceri, A Pompili, P Poropat, G Vuagnin, RS Panvini, CM Brown, R Kowalewski, JM Roney, HR Band, E Charles, S Dasu, F Di Lodovico, AM Eichenbaum, H Hu, JR Johnson, R Liu, J Nielsen, Y Pan, R Prepost, IJ Scott, SJ Sekula, JH von Wimmersperg-Toeller, SL Wu, Z Yu, H Zobernig, TMB Kordich, H Neal

Design and performance of the level 1 calorimeter trigger for the BaBar detector

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2 (2000)

Authors:

PD Dauncey, JC Andress, TJ Adye, NI Chevalier, BJ Claxton, N Dyce, B Foster, S Galagedera, A Kurup, A Mass, JD McFall, P McGrath, SJ Nash, DR Price, U Schäfer, I Scott, DCH Wallom

Abstract:

Since May 1999 the BaBar detector has been taking data at the PEP-II asymmetric electron-positron collider at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. California. This experiment requires a very large data sample and the PEP-II accelerator uses intense beams to deliver the high collision rates needed. This poses a severe challenge to the BaBar trigger system, which must reject the large rate of background signals resulting from the high beam currents whilst accepting the collisions of interest with very high efficiency. One of the systems that performs this task is the Level 1 Calorimeter Trigger, which identifies energy deposits left by particles in the BaBar calorimeter. It is a digital, custom, fixed latency system which makes heavy use of high-speed FPGA devices to allow flexibility in the choice of data filtering algorithms. Results from several intermediate processing stages are read out, allowing the selection algorithm to be fully analysed and optimized offline. In addition, the trigger is monitored in real time by sampling these data and cross-checking each stage of the trigger calculation against a software model. The design, implmentation, construction and performance of the Level 1 Calorimeter Trigger during the first year of BaBar operation are presented.

Measurement of exclusive ω electroproduction at HERA

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 487:3-4 (2000) 273-288

Authors:

J Breitweg, S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, A Pellegrino, J Repond, R Stanek, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, G Abbiendi, F Anselmo, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, N Coppola, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, 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, JD McFall, 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

Abstract:

The exclusive electroproduction of ω mesons, ep → e ω p, has been studied in the kinematic range 3 < Q2 < 20 GeV2, 40 < W < 120 GeV and |t| < 0.6 GeV2 with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 37.7 pb-1. The ω mesons were identified via the decay ω → π+ π- π0. The exclusive cross section in the above kinematic region is σ(ep) → e ω p = 0.108 ± 0.014 (stat.) ± 0.026(syst.) nb. The reaction ep → e φ p, φ → π+ π- π0, has also been measured. The cross sections, as well as the ratios σ γ·p → ωp/σ γ · p → p0p and σ γ · p → ωp/σγ·p → φp, are presented as a function of W and Q2. Thus, for the first time, the properties of ω electroproduction can be compared to those of p0,φ and J/ψ electroproduction at high W. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.

Measurement of azimuthal asymmetries in deep inelastic scattering

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 481:2-4 (2000) 199-212

Authors:

J Breitweg, S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, A Pellegrino, J Repond, R Stanek, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, G Abbiendi, F Anselmo, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, N Coppola, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, 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, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, A Weber, H Wieber, DS Bailey, O Barret, NH Brook, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, JD McFall, D Piccioni, 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

Abstract:

The distribution of the azimuthal angle for the charged hadrons has been studied in the hadronic centre-of-mass system for neutral current deep inelastic positron-proton scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA. Measurements of the dependence of the moments of this distribution on the transverse momenta of the charged hadrons are presented. Asymmetries that can be unambiguously attributed to perturbative QCD processes have been observed for the first time. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.