Measurement and QCD analysis of neutral and charged current cross sections at HERA.

The H1 collaboration Adloff, C. ; Andreev, V. ; Andrieu, B. ; et al.
Eur.Phys.J.C 30 (2003) 1-32, 2003.
Inspire Record 616311 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.11903

The inclusive e^+ p single and double differential cross sections for neutral and charged current processes are measured with the H1 detector at HERA. The data were taken in 1999 and 2000 at a centre-of-mass energy of \sqrt{s} = 319 GeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 65.2 pb^-1. The cross sections are measured in the range of four-momentum transfer squared Q^2 between 100 and 30000 GeV^2 and Bjorken x between 0.0013 and 0.65. The neutral current analysis for the new e^+ p data and the earlier e^- p data taken in 1998 and 1999 is extended to small energies of the scattered electron and therefore to higher values of inelasticity y, allowing a determination of the longitudinal structure function F_L at high Q^2 (110 - 700 GeV^2). A new measurement of the structure function x F_3 is obtained using the new e^+ p and previously published e^\pm p neutral current cross section data at high Q^2. These data together with H1 low Q^2 precision data are further used to perform new next-to-leading order QCD analyses in the framework of the Standard Model to extract flavour separated parton distributions in the proton.

21 data tables

The NC cross section DSIG/DQ**2. There is an additional 1.5 PCT normalization uncertainty.

The CC cross section DSIG/DQ**2. There is an additional 1.5 PCT normalization uncertainty.

The NC cross section DSIG/DX for Q**2 > 1000 GeV**2. There is an additional 1.5 PCT normalization uncertainty.

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