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Measurement of theF 2 structure function in deep inelastice + p scattering using 1994 data from the ZEUS detector at HERA
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Measurement of theF 2 structure function in deep inelastice + p scattering using 1994 data from the ZEUS detector at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration, J. Repond and U. Mallik
Zeitschrift für Physik. C, Particles and fields, Vol.72(3), pp.399-424
09/1996
DOI: 10.1007/s002880050260
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/9607002View
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Abstract

We present measurements of the structure function F2 in e+p scattering at HERA in the range 3.5 GeV2 < Q2 < 5000 GeV2. A new reconstruction method has allowed a significant improvement in the resolution of the kinematic variables and an extension of the kinematic region covered by the experiment. At Q2 < 35 GeV2 the range in x now spans 6.3 · 10-5 < x < 0.08 providing overlap with measurements from fixed target experiments. At values of Q2 above 1000 GeV2 the x range extends to 0.5. Systematic errors below 5% have been achieved for most of the kinematic region. The structure function rises as x decreases; the rise becomes more pronounced as Q2 increases. The behaviour of the structure function data is well described by next-to-leading order perturbative QCD as implemented in the DGLAP evolution equations.

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