Three-jet production in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA

Authors
Adloff, C Andreev, V Andrieu, B Anthonis, T Arkadov, V Astvatsatourov, A Ayyaz, I Babaev, A Bahr, J Baranov, P Barrelet, E Bartel, W Bate, P Beglarian, A Behnke, O Beier, C Belousov, A Benisch, T Berger, C Berndt, T Bizot, JC Boudry, V Braunschweig, W Brisson, V Broker, HB Brown, DP Bruckner, W Bruel, P Bruncko, D Burger, J Busser, FW Bunyatyan, A Burkhardt, H Burrage, A Buschhorn, G Campbell, AJ Cao, J Carli, T Caron, S Clarke, D Clerbaux, B Collard, C Contreras, GJ Coppens, YR Coughlan, JA Cousinou, MC Cox, BE Cozzika, G Cvach, J Dainton, JB Dau, WD Daum, K Davidsson, M Delcourt, B Delerue, N Demirchyan, R De Roeck, A De Wolf, EA Diaconu, C Dingfelder, J Dixon, P Dodonov, V Dowell, JD Droutskoi, A Dubak, A Duprel, C Eckerlin, G Eckstein, D Efremenko, V Egli, S Eichler, R Eisele, F Eisenhandler, E Ellerbrock, M Elsen, E Erdmann, M Erdmann, W Faulkner, PJW Favart, L Fedotov, A Felst, R Ferencei, J Ferron, S Fleischer, M Fleming, YH Flugge, G Fomenko, A Foresti, I Formanek, J Foster, JM Franke, G Gabathuler, E Gabathuler, K Garvey, J Gassner, J Gayler, J Gerhards, R Gerlich, C Ghazaryan, S Goerlich, L Gogitidze, N Goldberg, M Goodwin, C Grab, C Grassler, H Greenshaw, T Grindhammer, G Hadig, T Haidt, D Hajduk, L Haynes, WJ Heinemann, B Heinzelmann, G Heister, A Henderson, RCW Hengstmann, S Henschel, H Heremans, R Herrera, G Herynek, I Hildebrandt, M Hilgers, M Hiller, KH Hladky, J Hoting, P Hoffmann, D Horisberger, R Hurling, S Ibbotson, M Issever, C Jacquet, M Jaffre, M Janauschek, L Jansen, DM Janssen, X Jemanov, V Jonsson, L Johnson, DP Jones, MAS Jung, H Kastli, HK Kant, D Kapichine, M Karlsson, M Karschnick, O Keil, F Keller, N Kennedy, J Kenyon, IR Kermiche, S Kiesling, C Kjellberg, P Klein, M Kleinwort, C Knies, G Koblitz, B Kolya, SD Korbel, V Kostka, P Kotelnikov, SK Koutouev, R Koutov, A Krasny, MW Krehbiel, H Kroseberg, J Kruger, K Kupper, A Kuhr, T Kurca, T Lahmann, R Lamb, D Landon, MPJ Lange, W Lastovicka, T Laycock, P Lebailly, E Lebedev, A Leissner, B Lemrani, R Lendermann, V Levonian, S Lindstroem, M List, B Lobodzinska, E Lobodzinski, B Loginov, A Loktionova, N Lubimov, V Luders, S Luke, D Lytkin, L Magnussen, N Mahlke-Kruger, H Malden, N Malinovski, E Malinovski, I Maracek, R Marage, P Marks, J Marshall, R Martyn, HU Martyniak, J Maxfield, SJ Meer, D Mehta, A Meier, K Merkel, P Meyer, AB Meyer, H Meyer, J Meyer, PO Mikocki, S Milstead, D Mkrtchyan, T Mohr, R Mohrdieck, S Mondragon, MN Moreau, F Morozov, A Morris, JV Muller, K Murin, P Nagovizin, V Naroska, B Naumann, J Naumann, T Nellen, G Newman, PR Nicholls, TC Niebergall, F Niebuhr, C Nix, O Nowak, G Nunnemann, T Olsson, JE Ozerov, D Panassik, V Pascaud, C Patel, GD Peez, M Perez, E Phillips, JP Pitzl, D Poschl, R Potachnikova, I Povh, B Rabbertz, K Radel, G Rauschenberger, J Reimer, P Reisert, B Reyna, D Riess, S Risler, C Rizvi, E Robmann, P Roosen, R Rostovtsev, A Royon, C Rusakov, S Rybicki, K Sankey, DPC Scheins, J Schilling, FP Schleper, P Schmidt, D Schmidt, D Schmitt, S Schneider, M Schoeffel, L Schoning, A Schorner, T Schroder, V Schultz-Coulon, HC Schwanenberger, C Sedlak, K Sefkow, F Shekelyan, V Sheviakov, I Shtarkov, LN Sirois, Y Sloan, T Smirnov, P Solochenko, V Soloviev, Y Spaskov, V Specka, A Spitzer, H Stamen, R Steinhart, J Stella, B Stellberger, A Stiewe, J Straumann, U Struczinski, W Swart, M Tasevsky, M Tchernyshov, V Tchetchelnitski, S Thompson, G Thompson, PD Tobien, N Traynor, D Truol, P Tsipolitis, G Tsurin, I Turnau, J Turney, JE Tzamariudaki, E Udluft, S Usik, A Valkar, S Valkarova, A Vallee, C Van Mechelen, P Vassiliev, S Vazdik, Y Vichnevski, A Wacker, K Wallny, R Walter, T Waugh, B Weber, G Weber, M Wegener, D Werner, M Werner, N White, G Wiesand, S Wilksen, T Winde, M Winter, GG Wissing, C Wobisch, M Wollatz, H Wunsch, E Wyatt, AC Zacek, J Zalesak, J Zhang, Z Zhokin, A Zomer, F Zsembery, J zur Nedden, M
Citation
C. Adloff et al., Three-jet production in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA, PHYS LETT B, 515(1-2), 2001, pp. 17-29
Citations number
45
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICS LETTERS B
ISSN journal
0370-2693 → ACNP
Volume
515
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
17 - 29
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(20010823)515:1-2<17:TPIDSA>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
Three-jet production is studied for the first time in deep-inelastic positr on-proton scattering. The measurement carried out with the H1 detector at H ERA covers a large range of four-momentum transfer squared 5 < Q(2) < 5000 GeV2 and invariant three-jet masses 25 < M-3jet less than or similar to 140 GeV. Jets are defined by the inclusive k(perpendicular to) algorithm in th e Breit frame. The size of the three-jet cross section and the ratio of the three-jet to the dijet cross section R-3/2 are described over the whole ph ase space by the predictions of perturbative QCD in next-to-leading order. The shapes of angular jet distributions deviate significantly from a unifor m population of the available phase space but are well described by the QCD calculation. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.