1. Production of Z0 bosons in elastic and quasi-elastic ep collisions at HERA
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P. Schleper, E. Lobodzinska, S. Fang, Sebastian Mergelmeyer, L. M. Shcheglova, R. Yoshida, W. H. Smith, Thomas Schörner-Sadenius, Y. Yamazaki, Mário Costa, A. Galas, Aleksander Filip Żarnecki, Katsuo Tokushuku, V.V. Sosnovtsev, I. I. Katkov, D. Gladkov, Yu. A. Golubkov, E. Paul, Nazar Bartosik, L. Stanco, R. Ingbir, Enrico Tassi, J. J. Whitmore, G. DʼAgostini, Alexander Spiridonov, I. A. Melzer-Pellmann, Janusz Chwastowski, J. M. Pawlak, D.D. Reeder, L. Suszycki, Allen Caldwell, B. Löhr, A. Garfagnini, Ramoona Shehzadi, Antonino Zichichi, Wojciech Slominski, A. Verbytskyi, T. Theedt, R. Hori, A. Eskreys, Marco Schioppa, S. Magill, P. G. Pelfer, F. Corriveau, G. Grzelak, Claire Gwenlan, S. Kitamura, Zainol Abidin Ibrahim, F. Januschek, U. Samson, Andrea Contin, O. Yu. Lukina, B. Reisert, F. Mohamad Idris, M. Derrick, T. Tymieniecka, Danuta Kisielewska, K. Nagano, Nazar Stefaniuk, S. De Pasquale, B. B. Levchenko, T. P. Stewart, Janna Katharina Behr, A. Longhin, P.M. Kooijman, A. Keramidas, Rosario Nania, U. Kötz, H. Stadie, A. Kotański, Iwona Grabowska-Bold, M. Jüngst, Ben Bylsma, M. Vázquez, G. Hartner, H. Hartmann, Claudia Glasman, V. Drugakov, Krzysztof Piotrzkowski, Marcella Capua, Kenneth Long, Ulf Behrens, Federico Cindolo, H. Kowalski, Achim Geiser, B.O. Zhautykov, Alexander Tapper, Rainer Mankel, N.N. Vlasov, A. Nigro, A. Antonov, J. Repond, W. B. Schmidke, J. Maeda, D. Szuba, R. J. Nowak, T. Namsoo, Leszek Adamczyk, N. Kondrashova, Lev Khein, Takuya Nobe, Alessia Bruni, M.I. Ferrero, D. Lontkovskyi, C. Youngman, Halina Abramowicz, V. Trusov, H.-P. Jakob, J. F. Martin, H.G.J.M. Tiecke, A. Parenti, I. Kadenko, M. Basile, T. Haas, John Hart, P. Stopa, G. Dolinska, J. D. Morris, A. Pellegrino, F. Karstens, Ozan Arslan, S. Kananov, I. Makarenko, M.C.K. Mattingly, L. S. Durkin, R. Brugnera, Juan Terron, Ada Solano, K. Papageorgiu, Y. Iga, P.F. Ermolov, O. Zabiegalov, Kerstin Borras, V. Bokhonov, O. Zenaiev, R. Hamatsu, O. Bachynska, Z. Ren, S. Limentani, Dong-Chul Son, A. E. Nuncio-Quiroz, W. A. T. Wan Abdullah, I. O. Skillicorn, Els Koffeman, Matthew Wing, Masaki Ishitsuka, I. Rubinsky, M. Turcato, Alessandro Bertolin, James Ferrando, O. Kononenko, B. Brzozowska, B. Musgrave, V. Aushev, I. Gregor, I. Abt, E. Brownson, A. T. Doyle, A. Montanari, Anselmo Margotti, J. Grebenyuk, I. Singh, L.W. Wiggers, U. Klein, O. Turkot, P. Roloff, V. Sola, V. Libov, S. Miglioranzi, C. Blohm, N. Zhmak, Gy. Wolf, V. Monaco, D. Bot, K. Wichmann, M. Adamus, T. Kanno, G. Marini, B. A. Dolgoshein, W. Hain, Orel Gueta, S. Antonelli, Alexander Savin, Wolfram Dietrich Zeuner, A. Bamberger, Marta Ruspa, A.G. Robertson, Mariusz Przybycien, Ie. Korol, D. Notz, M. Corradi, O. Viazlo, D.S. Zotkin, Marcello Bindi, B. Pawlik, C. D. Catterall, T. W. Jones, N. Brümmer, T. Tsurugai, J. Szuba, A. N. Barakbaev, Ian Brock, Y. Ning, Sergei Chekanov, S. Yamada, A. Stern, K. Wrona, Dirk-Uwe Bartsch, J. Sztuk-Dambietz, B. Foster, K. Olkiewicz, Wolfgang Lohmann, S. Dusini, J. Schwartz, A. Lee, E. Hilger, H. Wolfe, G. Bari, Shima Shimizu, E.G. Boos, Graziano Bruni, I. A. Korzhavina, F. Sciulli, S. Bhadra, J. Y. Kim, U. Karshon, Pietro Antonioli, Luisa Cifarelli, L. K. Gladilin, Tomasz Bold, A. Hüttmann, D. H. Saxon, R. K. Dementiev, B.Y. Oh, D. Hochman, S. Schlenstedt, P. J. Bussey, M. Arneodo, P. Göttlicher, O. Kuprash, Jan Figiel, O. Behnke, S. Fazio, G. Grigorescu, M. Lisovyi, Roberto Sacchi, A.S. Proskuryakov, N.S. Pokrovskiy, Aharon Levy, Zukhaimira Zolkapli, F. Dal Corso, M. Wlasenko, R.C.E. Devenish, A. Gizhko, K. Mujkic, Hanno Perrey, R. Ciesielski, Elisabetta Gallo, Yu. Onishchuk, A.G. Yagües-Molina, J. Tomaszewska, J. Del Peso, W. Perlanski, G. F. Susinno, A. Raval, Fernando Barreiro, S.I. Suchkov, Didar Dobur, Y. Aushev, Lorenzo Bellagamba, N. Coppola, N. Okazaki, M. Kuze, Pawel Plucinski, E. Lohrmann, R. Klanner, Anna Mastroberardino, Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, Y.D. Ri, Grzegorz Gach, Kyrylo Bondarenko, T. Y. Ling, O. Gogota, Y. Eisenberg, R. Walczak, Giuseppe Barbagli, G. Sartorelli, Marcin Pawel Guzik, U. Schneekloth, R. Aggarwal, V. Schönberg, L. Zawiejski, P. Kaur, A. Stifutkin, B. Kahle, Roberto Carlin, J. Ciborowski, Manjit Kaur, J. Malka, Davide Boscherini, A. Polini, and I. Gialas
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,ZEUS (particle detector) ,Proton ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Hadron ,Elementary particle ,HERA ,01 natural sciences ,Standard Model ,Nuclear physics ,Pseudorapidity ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Nucleon - Abstract
The production of Z 0 bosons in the reaction ep→eZ 0 p (*) , where p (*) stands for a proton or a low-mass nucleon resonance, has been studied in ep collisions at HERA using the ZEUS detector. The analysis is based on a data sample collected between 1996 and 2007, amounting to 496pb -1 of integrated luminosity. The Z 0 was measured in the hadronic decay mode. The elasticity of the events was ensured by a cut on η max max is the maximum pseudorapidity of energy deposits in the calorimeter defined with respect to the proton beam direction. A signal was observed at the Z 0 mass. The cross section of the reaction ep→eZ 0 p (*) was measured to be σ(ep→eZ 0 p (*) )=0.13±0.06(stat.)±0.01(syst.) pb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 0.16 pb. This is the first measurement of Z 0 production in ep collisions. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
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- 2013