Published October 26, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Observation of the hadronic final state charge asymmetry in high Q2 deep-inelastic scattering at HERA

  • 1. National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (NIPNE), Bucharest (Romania)
  • 2. DESY, Hamburg (Germany)
  • 3. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 4. Dipartimento di Fisica Universita di Roma Tre and INFN Roma 3, Roma (Italy)
  • 5. Faculty of Science, University of Montenegro, Podgorica (Montenegro)
  • 6. Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan (Armenia)
  • 7. LPNHE, Universites Paris VI and VII, IN2P3-CNRS, Paris (France)
  • 8. Institute of Physics and Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. (Mongolia)
  • 9. LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay (France)
  • 10. LLR, Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Palaiseau (France)
  • 11. Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade (Serbia)
  • 12. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom)
  • 13. Institut fuer Experimentalphysik, Universitaet Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)

Description

A first measurement is presented of the charge asymmetry in the hadronic final state from the hard interaction in deep-inelastic ep neutral current scattering at HERA. The measurement is performed in the range of negative squared four momentum transfer 100<Q2<8000 GeV2. The difference between the event normalised distributions of the scaled momentum, xp, for positively and negatively charged particles, measured in the current region of the Breit frame, is studied together with its evolution as a function of Q. The results are compared to Monte Carlo models at the hadron and parton levels.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.09.056

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.09.056;
arXiv
arXiv:0907.2666v2;
PII
S0370-2693(09)01148-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
681
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 125-133
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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