Deep-inelastic positron-proton interactions at low values of Bjorken-x down to x \approx 4.10^-5 which give rise to high transverse momentum pi^0 mesons are studied with the H1 experiment at HERA. The inclusive cross section for pi^0 mesons produced at small angles with respect to the proton remnant (the forward region) is presented as a function of the transverse momentum and energy of the pi^0 and of the four-momentum transfer Q^2 and Bjorken-x. Measurements are also presented of the transverse energy flow in events containing a forward pi^0 meson. Hadronic final state calculations based on QCD models implementing different parton evolution schemes are confronted with the data.
The inclusive PI0 cross section as a function of the scaled pion energy in 3 regions of Bjorken X.
The inclusive PI0 cross section as a function of the scaled pion energy in 3 regions of Q**2.
Measurements are reported of the production of dijet events with a leading neutron in ep interactions at HERA. Differential cross sections for photoproduction and deep inelastic scattering are presented as a function of several kinematic variables. Leading order QCD simulation programs are compared with the measurements. Models in which the real or virtual photon interacts with a parton of an exchanged pion are able to describe the data. Next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations based on pion exchange are found to be in good agreement with the measured cross sections. The fraction of leading neutron dijet events with respect to all dijet events is also determined. The dijet events with a leading neutron have a lower fraction of resolved photon processes than do the inclusive dijet data.
Differential e p photoproduction cross section as a function of the jet transverse energy.
Differential e p DIS cross section as a function of the jet transverse energy.
Ratio of cross section for dijet production with a leading neutron to that for inclusive dijet production as a function of the jet transverse energy.
A search for single top quark production is performed in e^\pm p collisions at HERA. The search exploits data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 118.3 pb^-1. A model for the anomalous production of top quarks in a flavour changing neutral current process involving a t-u-gamma coupling is investigated. Decays of top quarks into a b quark and a W boson are considered in the leptonic and the hadronic decay channels of the W. Both a cut-based analysis and a multivariate likelihood analysis are performed to discriminate anomalous top quark production from Standard Model background processes. In the leptonic channel, 5 events are found while 1.31 \pm 0.22 events are expected from the Standard Model background. In the hadronic channel, no excess above the expectation for Standard Model processes is found. These observations lead to a cross section \sigma (ep -> e t X) = 0.29 +0.15 -0.14 pb at \sqrt{s} = 319 GeV. Alternatively, assuming that the observed events are due to a statistical fluctuation, upper limits of 0.55 pb on the anomalous top production cross section and of 0.27 on the t-u-gamma coupling \kappa_{t-u-gamma} are established at the 95% confidence level.
Cross section from a combination of electron, muon and hadron channels.
Inclusive D* production is measured in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA with the H1 detector. In addition, the production of dijets in events with a D* meson is investigated. The analysis covers values of photon virtuality 2< Q^2 <=100 GeV^2 and of inelasticity 0.05<= y <= 0.7. Differential cross sections are measured as a function of Q^2 and x and of various D* meson and jet observables. Within the experimental and theoretical uncertainties all measured cross sections are found to be adequately described by next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD calculations, based on the photon-gluon fusion process and DGLAP evolution, without the need for an additional resolved component of the photon beyond what is included at NLO. A reasonable description of the data is also achieved by a prediction based on the CCFM evolution of partons involving the k_T-unintegrated gluon distribution of the proton.
Differential cross section for D*+- production with dijets as a function of M(C=JET2).
Differential cross section for D*+- production with dijets as a function of M(C=JET2).
A measurement of charm and beauty dijet photoproduction cross sections at the ep collider HERA is presented. Events are selected with two or more jets of transverse momentum $p_t^{jet}_{1(2)}>11(8)$ GeV in the central range of pseudo-rapidity $-0.9<\eta^{jet}_{1(2)}<1.3$. The fractions of events containing charm and beauty quarks are determined using a method based on the impact parameter, in the transverse plane, of tracks to the primary vertex, as measured by the H1 central vertex detector. Differential dijet cross sections for charm and beauty, and their relative contributions to the flavour inclusive dijet photoproduction cross section, are measured as a function of the transverse momentum of the leading jet, the average pseudo-rapidity of the two jets and the observable $x_{\gamma}^{obs}$. Taking into account the theoretical uncertainties, the charm cross sections are consistent with a QCD calculation in next-to-leading order, while the predicted cross sections for beauty production are somewhat lower than the measurement.
Ratio of BOTTOM to inclusive cross sections.
Deep-inelastic ep scattering data taken with the H1 detector at HERA and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 106 pb^{-1} are used to study the differential distributions of event shape variables. These include thrust, jet broadening, jet mass and the C-parameter. The four-momentum transfer Q is taken to be the relevant energy scale and ranges between 14 GeV and 200 GeV. The event shape distributions are compared with perturbative QCD predictions, which include resummed contributions and analytical power law corrections, the latter accounting for non-perturbative hadronisation effects. The data clearly exhibit the running of the strong coupling alpha_s(Q) and are consistent with a universal power correction parameter alpha_0 for all event shape variables. A combined QCD fit using all event shape variables yields alpha_s(mZ) = 0.1198 \pm 0.0013 ^{+0.0056}_{-0.0043} and alpha_0 = 0.476 \pm 0.008 ^{+0.018} _{-0.059}.
Normalised distribution of the squared Jet Mass (RHO), for Q = 14.0 to 16.0 GeV and X = 0.00841 .
A detailed analysis is presented of the diffractive deep-inelastic scattering process $ep\to eXY$, where $Y$ is a proton or a low mass proton excitation carrying a fraction $1 - \xpom > 0.95$ of the incident proton longitudinal momentum and the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex satisfies $|t|<1 {\rm GeV^2}$. Using data taken by the H1 experiment, the cross section is measured for photon virtualities in the range $3.5 \leq Q^2 \leq 1600 \rm GeV^2$, triple differentially in $\xpom$, $Q^2$ and $\beta = x / \xpom$, where $x$ is the Bjorken scaling variable. At low $\xpom$, the data are consistent with a factorisable $\xpom$ dependence, which can be described by the exchange of an effective pomeron trajectory with intercept $\alphapom(0)= 1.118 \pm 0.008 {\rm (exp.)} ^{+0.029}_{-0.010} {\rm (model)}$. Diffractive parton distribution functions and their uncertainties are determined from a next-to-leading order DGLAP QCD analysis of the $Q^2$ and $\beta$ dependences of the cross section. The resulting gluon distribution carries an integrated fraction of around 70% of the exchanged momentum in the $Q^2$ range studied. Total and differential cross sections are also measured for the diffractive charged current process $e^+ p \to \bar{\nu}_e XY$ and are found to be well described by predictions based on the diffractive parton distributions. The ratio of the diffractive to the inclusive neutral current $ep$ cross sections is studied. Over most of the kinematic range, this ratio shows no significant dependence on $Q^2$ at fixed $\xpom$ and $x$ or on $x$ at fixed $Q^2$ and $\beta$.
Details of systematic errors from the Minimum Bias data sample taken in 1997. D_UNC ==> uncorrelated systematic error. D_LAR ==> LAr hadronic energy scale. D_ELE ==> SPACAL electromagnetic energy scale. D_THETA ==> scattered electron angle. D_NOISE ==> calorimeter noise treatment. D_XPOM ==> reweighting the simulation in X(pomeron). D_BETA ==> reweighting the simulation in BETA. D_BG ==> background subtraction. D_PLUG ==> plug energy scale. Q**2 ==> reweighting the simulation in Q**2. SPA ==> SPACAL hadromic energy scale.
Details of systematic errors from the Minimum Bias data sample taken in 1997. D_UNC ==> uncorrelated systematic error. D_LAR ==> LAr hadronic energy scale. D_ELE ==> SPACAL electromagnetic energy scale. D_THETA ==> scattered electron angle. D_NOISE ==> calorimeter noise treatment. D_XPOM ==> reweighting the simulation in X(pomeron). D_BETA ==> reweighting the simulation in BETA. D_BG ==> background subtraction. D_PLUG ==> plug energy scale. Q**2 ==> reweighting the simulation in Q**2. SPA ==> SPACAL hadromic energy scale.
Details of systematic errors from the complete ('all') data sample taken in 1997. D_UNC ==> uncorrelated systematic error. D_LAR ==> LAr hadronic energy scale. D_ELE ==> SPACAL electromagnetic energy scale. D_THETA ==> scattered electron angle. D_NOISE ==> calorimeter noise treatment. D_XPOM ==> reweighting the simulation in X(pomeron). D_BETA ==> reweighting the simulation in BETA. D_BG ==> background subtraction. D_PLUG ==> plug energy scale. Q**2 ==> reweighting the simulation in Q**2. SPA ==> SPACAL hadromic energy scale.
The leptoproduction of J/psi mesons is studied in inelastic reactions for four momentum transfers 2<Q^2<100GeV^2. The data were taken with the H1 detector at the electron proton collider HERA and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 77 pb-1. Single differential and double differential cross sections are measured with increased precision compared with previous analyses. New leading order calculations within the non-relativistic QCD factorisation approach including colour octet and colour singlet contributions are compared with the data and are found to give a reasonable description of most distributions. An exception is the shape of the distribution in the J/psi fractional energy, z, which deviates significantly from that of the data. Comparisons with photoproduction are made and the polarisation of the produced J/psi meson is analysed.
J/PSI leptoproduction differential cross section as a function of COS(THETA*) in the Q**2 range 2 to 6.5 GeV**2.
Dijet cross sections as functions of several jet observables are measured in photoproduction using the H1 detector at HERA. The data sample comprises e^+p data with an integrated luminosity of 34.9 pb^(-1). Jets are selected using the inclusive k_T algorithm with a minimum transverse energy of 25 GeV for the leading jet. The phase space covers longitudinal proton momentum fraction x_p and photon longitudinal momentum fraction x_gamma in the ranges 0.05<x_p<0.6 and 0.1<x_gamma<1. The predictions of next-to-leading order perturbative QCD, including recent photon and proton parton densities, are found to be compatible with the data in a wide kinematical range.
Differential ep cross section for dijet production as a function of the average transverse energy the two jets.
Differential ep cross section for dijet production as a function of the maximum transverse energy the leading jet.
Differential ep cross section for dijet production as a function of the average pseudorapidity the two jets in two transverse energy regions and in the Y region 0.1 to 0.5.
The inclusive e^-p single and double differential cross sections for neutral and charged current processes are measured with the H1 detector at HERA, in the range of four-momentum transfer squared Q^2 between 150 and 30000 GeV^2, and Bjorken x between 0.002 and 0.65. The data were taken in 1998 and 1999 with a centre-of-mass energy of 320 GeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 16.4 pb^(-1). The data are compared with recent measurements of the inclusive neutral and charged current e^+p cross sections. For Q^2>1000 GeV^2 clear evidence is observed for an asymmetry between e^+p and e^-p neutral current scattering and the generalised structure function xF_3 is extracted for the first time at HERA. A fit to the charged current data is used to extract a value for the W boson propagator mass. The data are found to be in good agreement with Standard Model predictions.
CT = The various sources of error (in percent) to the individual NC reduced cross section given in table 6 - see text of paper for more details;DTOT - TOTAL error. DSTA - STATISTICAL error. DUNC - UNCORRELATED SYSTEMATIC error. DUNC(E) - UNCORRELATED SYSTEMATIC error from the positron energy. DUNC(H) - UNCORRELATED SYSTEMATIC error from the hadronic energy. DCOR - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC error. DCOR(E+) - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC from one sig variation in the positron energy. DCOR(T+) - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC from one sig variation in the positron polar angle. DCOR(H+) - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC from one sig variation in the hadron energy. DCOR(N+) - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC from one sig variation in the noise subtraction. DCOR(B+) - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC from one sig variation in the background subtraction.
The various sources of error (in percent) to the individual CC double differential cross sections given in table 7 - see text of paper for more details. DTOT - TOTAL error. DSTA - STATISTICAL error. DUNC - UNCORRELATED SYSTEMATIC error. DUNC(H) - UNCORRELATED SYSTEMATIC error from the hadronic energy. DCOR - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC error. DCOR(V+) - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC from one sig variationin the cut on the Vap/Vp ratio. DCOR(H+) - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC from one sig variation in the hadron energy. DCOR(N+) - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC from one sig variation in the noise subtraction. DCOR(B+) - CORRELATED SYSTEMATIC from one sig variation in the background subtraction.
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