Published May 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Jet production in ep collisions at low Q 2 and determination of αs

Creators

  • 1. National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (NIPNE), Bucharest (Romania)
  • 2. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 3. DESY, Hamburg (Germany)
  • 4. University of Montenegro, Faculty of Science, Podgorica (Montenegro)
  • 5. Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan (Armenia)
  • 6. Universites Paris VI et VII, CNRS/IN2P3, LPNHE, Paris (France)
  • 7. Institute of Physics and Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
  • 8. Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, LAL, Orsay (France)
  • 9. Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, LLR, Palaiseau (France)
  • 10. Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade (Serbia)
  • 11. University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Birmingham (United Kingdom)
  • 12. Universitaet Hamburg, Institut fuer Experimentalphysik, Hamburg (Germany)
  • 13. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice (Slovakia)
  • 14. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)
  • 15. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Muenchen (Germany)
  • 16. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 17. CINVESTAV, Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Merida, Yucatan (Mexico)
  • 18. Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Praha (Czech Republic)
  • 19. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot (United Kingdom)
  • 20. CE-Saclay, CEA, DSM/Irfu, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 21. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Physics, Praha (Czech Republic)
  • 22. University of Liverpool, Department of Physics, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
  • 23. Universitaet Wuppertal, Fachbereich C, Wuppertal (Germany)
  • 24. Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen (Belgium)
  • 25. Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels (Belgium)
  • 26. CNRS/IN2P3 - Univ. Mediterranee, CPPM, Marseille (France)
  • 27. Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen (Switzerland)
  • 28. Institute for Nuclear Physics, Cracow (Poland)
  • 29. DESY, Zeuthen (Germany)
  • 30. ETH, Institut fuer Teilchenphysik, Zuerich (Switzerland)
  • 31. University of Lancaster, Department of Physics, Lancaster (United Kingdom)
  • 32. Universitaet Heidelberg, Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik, Heidelberg (DE)
  • 33. CINVESTAV, Departamento de Fisica, Mexico City (MX)
  • 34. University of Lund, Physics Department, Lund (SE)
  • 35. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (RU)
  • 36. Queen Mary and Westfield College, London (GB)
  • 37. I. Physikalisches Institut der RWTH, Aachen (DE)
  • 38. Physik-Institut der Universitaet Zuerich, Zuerich (CH)
  • 39. Universitaet Heidelberg, Physikalisches Institut, Heidelberg (DE)
  • 40. TU Dortmund, Institut fuer Physik, Dortmund (DE)
  • 41. INFN Roma 3, Dipartimento di Fisica, Roma (IT)
  • 42. Universita di Roma Tre (IT)
  • 43. Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia (BG)

Description

The production of jets is studied in deep-inelastic e + p scattering at low negative four momentum transfer squared 5<Q 2<100 GeV2 and at inelasticity 0.2<y<0.7 using data recorded by the H1 detector at HERA in the years 1999 and 2000, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 43.5 pb-1. Inclusive jet, 2-jet and 3-jet cross sections as well as the ratio of 3-jet to 2-jet cross sections are measured as a function of Q 2 and jet transverse momentum. The 2-jet cross section is also measured as a function of the proton momentum fraction ξ. The measurements are well described by perturbative quantum chromodynamics at next-to-leading order corrected for hadronisation effects and are subsequently used to extract the strong coupling αs. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1282-x

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 1-24
ISSN
1434-6044

Optional Information

Collaborations
H1 Collaboration