Published December 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

A precision measurement of the inclusive ep scattering cross section at HERA

Creators

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

Description

A measurement of the inclusive deep inelastic neutral current e+p scattering cross section is reported in the region of four-momentum transfer squared, 12 GeV2≤Q2≤150 GeV2, and Bjorken x, 2 x 10-4≤x≤0.1. The results are based on data collected by the H1 Collaboration at the ep collider HERA at positron and proton beam energies of Ee=27.6 GeV and Ep=920 GeV, respectively. The data are combined with previously published data, taken at Ep=820 GeV. The accuracy of the combined measurement is typically in the range of 1.3-2%. A QCD analysis at next-to-leading order is performed to determine the parton distributions in the proton based on H1 data. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1169-x

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C
Journal Volume
64
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 561-587
ISSN
1434-6044

Optional Information

Collaborations
H1 Collaboration