351. Measurement of the reaction γ*p→φp in deep inelastic e+p scattering at HERA
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M. Derrick, D. Krakauer, S. Magill, D. Mikunas, B. Musgrave, J.R. Okrasinski, J. Repond, R. Stanek, R.L. Talaga, H. Zhang, M.C.K. Mattingly, G. Bari, M. Basile, L. Bellagamba, D. Boscherini, A. Bruni, G. Bruni, P. Bruni, G. Cara Romeo, G. Castellini, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, A. Contin, M. Corradi, I. Gialas, P. Giusti, G. Iacobucci, G. Laurenti, G. Levi, A. Margotti, T. Massam, R. Nania, F. Palmonari, A. Polini, G. Sartorelli, Y.Zamora Garcia, A. Zichichi, C. Amelung, A. Bornheim, J. Crittenden, R. Deffner, T. Doeker, M. Eckert, L. Feld, A. Frey, M. Geerts, M. Grothe, H. Hartmann, K. Heinloth, L. Heinz, E. Hilger, H.-P. Jakob, U.F. Katz, S. Mengel, E. Paul, M. Pfeiffer, Ch. Rembser, D. Schramm, J. Stamm, R. Wedemeyer, S. Campbell-Robson, A. Cassidy, W.N. Cottingham, N. Dyce, B. Foster, S. George, M.E. Hayes, G.P. Heath, H.F. Heath, D. Piccioni, D.G. Roff, R.J. Tapper, R. Yoshida, M. Arneodo, R. Ayad, M. Capua, A. Garfagnini, L. Iannotti, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, A. Caldwell, N. Cartiglia, Z. Jing, W. Liu, J.A. Parsons, S. Ritz, F. Sciulli, P.B. Straub, L. Wai, S. Yang, Q. Zhu, P. Borzemski, J. Chwastowski, A. Eskreys, Z. Jakubowski, M.B. Przybycień, M. Zachara, L. Zawiejski, L. Adamczyk, B. Bednarek, K. Jeleń, D. Kisielewska, T. Kowalski, M. Przybycień, E. Rulikowska-Zarȩbska, L. Suszycki, J. Zaja̧c, Z. Duliński, A. Kotański, G. Abbiendi, L.A.T. Bauerdick, U. Behrens, H. Beier, J.K. Bienlein, G. Cases, O. Deppe, K. Desler, G. Drews, M. Flasiński, D.J. Gilkinson, C. Glasman, P. Göttlicher, J. Große-Knetter, T. Haas, W. Hain, D. Hasell, H. Heßling, Y. Iga, K.F. Johnson, P. Joos, M. Kasemann, R. Klanner, W. Koch, U. Kötz, H. Kowalski, J. Labs, A. Ladage, B. Löhr, M. Löwe, D. Lüke, J. Mainusch, O. Mańczak, J. Milewski, T. Monteiro, J.S.T. Ng, D. Notz, K. Ohrenberg, K. Piotrzkowski, M. Roco, M. Rohde, J. Roldán, U. Schneekloth, W. Schulz, F. Selonke, B. Surrow, T. Voß, D. Westphal, G. Wolf, U. Wollmer, C. Youngman, W. Zeuner, H.J. Grabosch, A. Kharchilava, S.M. Mari, A. Meyer, S. Schlenstedt, N. Wulff, G. Barbagli, E. Gallo, P. Pelfer, G. Maccarrone, S. De Pasquale, L. Votano, A. Bamberger, S. Eisenhardt, T. Trefzger, S. Wölfle, J.T. Bromley, N.H. Brook, P.J. Bussey, A.T. Doyle, D.H. Saxon, L.E. Sinclair, M.L. Utley, A.S. Wilson, A. Dannemann, U. Holm, D. Horstmann, R. Sinkus, K. Wick, B.D. Burow, L. Hagge, E. Lohrmann, N. Pavel, G. Poelz, W. Schott, F. Zetsche, T.C. Bacon, N. Brümmer, I. Butterworth, V.L. Harris, G. Howell, B.H.Y. Hung, L. Lamberti, K.R. Long, D.B. Miller, A. Prinias, J.K. Sedgbeer, D. Sideris, A.F. Whitfield, U. Mallik, M.Z. Wang, S.M. Wang, J.T. Wu, P. Cloth, D. Filges, S.H. An, G.H. Cho, B.J. Ko, S.B. Lee, S.W. Nam, H.S. Park, S.K. Park, S. Kartik, H.-J. Kim, R.R. McNeil, W. Metcalf, V.K. Nadendla, F. Barreiro, J.P. Fernandez, R. Graciani, J.M. Hernández, L. Hervás, L. Labarga, M. Martinez, J. del Peso, J. Puga, J. Terron, J.F. de Trocóniz, F. Corriveau, D.S. Hanna, J. Hartmann, L.W. Hung, J.N. Lim, C.G. Matthews, P.M. Patel, M. Riveline, D.G. Stairs, M. St-Laurent, R. Ullmann, G. Zacek, T. Tsurugai, V. Bashkirov, B.A. Dolgoshein, A. Stifutkin, G.L. Bashindzhagyan, P.F. Ermolov, L.K. Gladilin, Yu.A. Golubkov, V.D. Kobrin, I.A. Korzhavina, V.A. Kuzmin, O.Yu. Lukina, A.S. Proskuryakov, A.A. Savin, L.M. Shcheglova, A.N. Solomin, N.P. Zotov, M. Botje, F. Chlebana, J. Engelen, M. de Kamps, P. Kooijman, A. Kruse, A. van Sighem, H. Tiecke, W. Verkerke, J. Vossebeld, M. Vreeswijk, L. Wiggers, E. de Wolf, R. van Woudenberg, D. Acosta, B. Bylsma, L.S. Durkin, J. Gilmore, C. Li, T.Y. Ling, P. Nylander, I.H. Park, T.A. Romanowski, D.S. Bailey, R.J. Cashmore, A.M. Cooper-Sarkar, R.C.E. Devenish, N. Harnew, M. Lancaster, L. Lindemann, J.D. McFall, C. Nath, V.A. Noyes, A. Quadt, J.R. Tickner, H. Uijterwaal, R. Walczak, D.S. Waters, F.F. Wilson, T. Yip, A. Bertolin, R. Brugnera, R. Carlin, F. Dal Corso, M. De Giorgi, U. Dosselli, S. Limentani, M. Morandin, M. Posocco, L. Stanco, R. Stroili, C. Voci, F. Zuin, J. Bulmahn, R.G. Feild, B.Y. Oh, J.J. Whitmore, G. D'Agostini, G. Marini, A. Nigro, E. Tassi, J.C. Hart, N.A. McCubbin, T.P. Shah, E. Barberis, T. Dubbs, C. Heusch, M. Van Hook, W. Lockman, J.T. Rahn, H.F.-W. Sadrozinski, A. Seiden, D.C. Williams, J. Biltzinger, R.J. Seifert, O. Schwarzer, A.H. Walenta, G. Zech, H. Abramowicz, G. Briskin, S. Dagan, A. Levy, J.I. Fleck, M. Inuzuka, T. Ishii, M. Kuze, S. Mine, M. Nakao, I. Suzuki, K. Tokushuku, K. Umemori, S. Yamada, Y. Yamazaki, M. Chiba, R. Hamatsu, T. Hirose, K. Homma, S. Kitamura, T. Matsushita, K. Yamauchi, R. Cirio, M. Costa, M.I. Ferrero, S. Maselli, C. Peroni, R. Sacchi, A. Solano, A. Staiano, M. Dardo, D.C. Bailey, F. Benard, M. Brkic, C.-P. Fagerstroem, G.F. Hartner, K.K. Joo, G.M. Levman, J.F. Martin, R.S. Orr, S. Polenz, C.R. Sampson, D. Simmons, R.J. Teuscher, J.M. Butterworth, C.D. Catterall, T.W. Jones, P.B. Kaziewicz, J.B. Lane, R.L. Saunders, J. Shulman, M.R. Sutton, B. Lu, L.W. Mo, W. Bogusz, J. Ciborowski, J. Gajewski, G. Grzelak, M. Kasprzak, M. Krzyżanowski, K. Muchorowski, R.J. Nowak, J.M. Pawlak, T. Tymieniecka, A.K. Wróblewski, J.A. Zakrzewski, A.F. Żarnecki, M. Adamus, C. Coldewey, Y. Eisenberg, D. Hochman, U. Karshon, D. Revel, D. Zer-Zion, W.F. Badgett, J. Breitweg, D. Chapin, R. Cross, S. Dasu, C. Foudas, R.J. Loveless, S. Mattingly, D.D. Reeder, S. Silverstein, W.H. Smith, A. Vaiciulis, M. Wodarczyk, S. Bhadra, M.L. Cardy, W.R. Frisken, M. Khakzad, W.N. Murray, and W.B. Schmidke
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Quark ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Meson ,Proton ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Perturbative QCD ,HERA ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Zeus (malware) ,Gluon ,Nuclear physics ,Pomeron ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics - Abstract
The production of φ mesons in the reaction e+p → e+φp (φ → K+K−), for 7 Q 2 GeV 2 and virtual photon-proton centre of mass energies (W) in the range 42–134 GeV, has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA. When compared to lower energy data at similar Q 2, the results show that the γ ∗ p → φp cross section rises strongly with W. This behaviour is similar to that previously found for the γ ∗ p → ϱ 0 p cross section. This strong dependence cannot be explained by production through soft pomeron exchange. It is, however, consistent with perturbative QCD expectations, where it reflects the rise of the gluon momentum density in the proton at small x. The ratio of σ(φ) σ(ϱ 0 ) , which has previously been determined by ZEUS to be 0.065 ± 0.013 (stat.) in photoproduction at a mean W of 70 GeV, is measured to be 0.18 ± 0.05 (stat.) ± 0.03 (syst.) at a mean Q 2 of 12.3 GeV2 and mean W of ≈ 100 GeV and is thus approaching at large Q 2 the value of 2 9 predicted from the quark charges of the vector mesons and a flavour independent production mechanism.