Measurement of High-Q2 e- p Neutral Current Cross Sections at HERA and the Extraction of xF3: The ZEUS Collaboration

  • S. Chekanov
  • , D. Krakauer
  • , S. Magill
  • , B. Musgrave
  • , J. Repond
  • , R. Yoshida
  • , Margarita C. K. Mattingly
  • , P. Antonioli
  • , G. Bari
  • , M. Basile
  • , L. Bellagamba
  • , D. Boscherini
  • , A. Bruni
  • , G. Bruni
  • , G. Cara Romeo
  • , L. Cifarelli
  • , F. Cindolo
  • , A. Contin
  • , M. Corradi
  • , S. de Pasquale
  • P. Giusti, G. Iacobucci, A. Margotti, R. Nania, F. Palmonari, A. Pesci, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi, G. Aghuzumtsyan, D. Bartsch, I. Brock

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Abstract

Cross sections for e- p neutral current deep inelastic scattering have been measured at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV using an integrated luminosity of 15.9 pb-1 collected with the ZEUS detector at HERA. Results on the double-differential cross-section d2σ/dx dQ2 in the range 185 < Q2 < 50 000 GeV2 and 0.0037 < x < 0.75, as well as the single-differential cross-sections dσ/dQ2, dσ/dx and dσ/dy for Q2 > 200GeV2, are presented. To study the effect of Z-boson exchange, dσ/dx has also been measured for Q2 > 10 000 GeV2. The structure function xF3 has been extracted by combining the e-p results presented here with the recent ZEUS measurements of e+ p neutral current deep inelastic scattering. All results agree well with the predictions of the Standard Model.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)175-201
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume28
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 2003

Disciplines

  • Physics

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