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Study of the pion trajectory in the photoproduction of leading neutrons at HERA

  • S. Chekanov
  • , M. Derrick
  • , D. Krakauer
  • , J. H. Loizides
  • , S. Magill
  • , S. Miglioranzi
  • , B. Musgrave
  • , J. Repond
  • , R. Yoshida
  • , M. 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, A. Montanari, R. Nania, F. Palmonari, A. Pesci, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi, G. Aghuzumtsyan, D. Bartsch, I. Brock, S. Goers, H. Hartmann, E. Hilger, P. Irrgang, H. P. Jakob, O. Kind, U. Meyer, E. Paul, J. Rautenberg, R. Renner, A. Stifutkin, J. Tandler, K. C. Voss, M. Wang, D. S. Bailey, N. H. Brook, J. E. Cole, G. P. Heath, T. Namsoo, S. Robins, M. Wing, M. Capua, A. Mastroberardino, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, J. Y. Kim, I. T. Lim, K. J. Ma, M. Y. Pac, A. Caldwell, M. Helbich, X. Liu, B. Mellado, Y. Ning, S. Paganis, Z. Ren, W. B. Schmidke, F. Sciulli, J. Chwastowski, A. Eskreys, J. Figiel, A. Galas, K. Olkiewicz, P. Stopa, L. Zawiejski, L. Adamczyk, T. Bołd, I. Grabowska-Bołd, D. Kisielewska, A. M. Kowal, M. Kowal, J. Łukasik, M. Przybycień, L. Suszycki, D. Szuba, J. Szuba, A. Kotański, W. Słomiński, V. Adler, U. Behrens, I. Bloch, K. Borras, V. Chiochia, D. Dannheim, G. Drews, J. Fourletova, U. Fricke, A. Geiser, P. Göttlicher, O. Gutsche, T. Haas, W. Hain, S. Hillert, C. Horn, B. Kahle, U. Kötz, H. Kowalski, G. Kramberger, H. Labes, D. Lelas, H. Lim, B. Löhr, R. Mankel, I. A. Melzer-Pellmann, C. N. Nguyen, D. Notz, A. E. Nuncio-Quiroz, A. Polini, A. Raval, L. Rurua, U. Schneekloth, U. Stösslein, G. Wolf, C. Youngman, W. Zeuner, S. Schlenstedt, G. Barbagli, E. Gallo, C. Genta, P. G. Pelfer, A. Bamberger, A. Benen, F. Karstens, D. Dobur, N. N. Vlasov, M. Bell, P. J. Bussey, A. T. Doyle, J. Ferrando, J. Hamilton, S. Hanlon, D. H. Saxon, I. O. Skillicorn, I. Gialas, T. Carli, T. Gosau, U. Holm, N. Krumnack, E. Lohrmann, M. Milite, H. Salehi, P. Schleper, T. Schörner-Sadenius, S. Stonjek, K. Wichmann, K. Wick, A. Ziegler, Ar Ziegler, C. Collins-Tooth, C. Foudas, R. Gonçalo, K. R. Long, A. D. Tapper, P. Cloth, D. Filges, M. Kataoka, K. Nagano, K. Tokushuku, S. Yamada, Y. Yamazaki, A. N. Barakbaev, E. G. Boos, N. S. Pokrovskiy, B. O. Zhautykov, D. Son, K. Piotrzkowski, F. Barreiro, C. Glasman, O. González, L. Labarga, J. Del Peso, E. Tassi, J. Terrón, M. Zambrana, M. Barbi, F. Corriveau, S. Gliga, J. Lainesse, S. Padhi, D. G. Stairs, R. Walsh, T. Tsurugai, A. Antonov, P. Danilov, B. A. Dolgoshein, D. Gladkov, V. Sosnovtsev, S. Suchkov, R. K. Dementiev, P. F. Ermolov, I. I. Katkov, L. A. Khein, I. A. Korzhavina, V. A. Kuzmin, B. B. Levchenko, O. Yu Lukina, A. S. Proskuryakov, L. M. Shcheglova, S. A. Zotkin, N. Coppola, S. Grijpink, E. Koffeman, P. Kooijman, E. Maddox, A. Pellegrino, S. Schagen, H. Tiecke, M. Vázquez, L. Wiggers, E. De Wolf, N. Brümmer, B. Bylsma, L. S. Durkin, T. Y. Ling, A. M. Cooper-Sarkar, A. Cottrell, R. C.E. Devenish, B. Foster, G. Grzelak, C. Gwenlan, T. Kohno, S. Patel, P. B. Straub, R. Walczak, A. Bertolin, R. Brugnera, R. Carlin, F. Dal Corso, S. Dusini, A. Garfagnini, S. Limentani, A. Longhin, A. Parenti, M. Posocco, L. Stanco, M. Turcato, E. A. Heaphy, F. Metlica, B. Y. Oh, J. J. Whitmore, Y. Iga, G. D'Agostini, G. Marini, A. Nigro, C. Cormack, J. C. Hart, N. A. McCubbin, C. Heusch, I. H. Park, N. Pavel, H. Abramowicz, A. Gabareen, S. Kananov, A. Kreisel, A. Levy, M. Kuze, T. Fusayasu, S. Kagawa, T. Tawara, T. Yamashita, R. Hamatsu, T. Hirose, M. Inuzuka, H. Kaji, S. Kitamura, K. Matsuzawa, M. Costa, M. I. Ferrero, V. Monaco, R. Sacchi, A. Solano, M. Arneodo, M. Ruspa, T. Koop, J. F. Martin, A. Mirea, J. M. Butterworth, R. Hall-Wilton, T. W. Jones, M. S. Lightwood, M. R. Sutton, C. Targett-Adams, J. Ciborowski, R. Ciesielski, P. Łuzniak, R. J. Nowak, J. M. Pawlak, J. Sztuk, T. Tymieniecka, A. Ukleja, J. Ukleja, A. F. Zarnecki, M. Adamus, P. Plucinski, Y. Eisenberg, D. Hochman, U. Karshon, M. Riveline, A. Everett, L. K. Gladilin, D. Kçira, S. Lammers, L. Li, D. D. Reeder, M. Rosin, P. Ryan, A. A. Savin, W. H. Smith, A. Deshpande, S. Dhawan, S. Bhadra, C. D. Catterall, S. Fourletov, G. Hartner, S. Menary, M. Soares, J. Standage
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • University College London
  • Andrews University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Bonn
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Calabria
  • Chonnam National University
  • Dongshin University
  • Columbia University
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of the Aegean
  • University of Hamburg
  • Imperial College London
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • Jülich Research Centre
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics
  • Nara Women's University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Université catholique de Louvain
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • McGill University
  • Meiji Gakuin University
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Padua
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • National Science Foundation
  • Polytechnic University Japan
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Ewha Womans University
  • University of Siegen
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Institute of Science Tokyo
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • University of Turin
  • University of Eastern Piedmont
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Warsaw
  • University of Lodz
  • Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Yale University
  • York University Toronto

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Abstract

Energetic neutrons produced in ep collisions at HERA have been studied with the ZEUS detector in the photoproduction regime at a mean photon-proton center-of-mass energy of 220 GeV. The neutrons carry a large fraction 0.64<xL<0.925 of the incoming proton energy, and the four-momentum transfer squared at the proton-neutron vertex is small, |t|<0.425 GeV2. The xL distribution of the neutrons is measured in bins of t. The (1-xL) distributions in the t bins studied satisfy a power law dN/dxL∝(1-xL)a(t), with the powers a(t) following a linear function of t: a(t)=0.88±0. 09(stat.)-0.39+0.34(syst.)-(2.81±0.42(stat.)-0.62+1.13(syst.) GeV-2)t. This result is consistent with the expectations of pion-exchange models, in which the incoming proton fluctuates to a neutron-pion state, and the electron interacts with the pion.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)199-211
Number of pages13
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume610
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 24 2005

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