Combined measurement and QCD analysis of the inclusive e±p scattering cross sections at HERA
A combination is presented of the inclusive deep inelastic cross sections measured by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations in neutral and charged current unpolarised e±p scattering at HERA during the period 1994-2000. The data span six orders of magnitude in negative four-momentum-transfer squared, Q2, and in Bjorken x. The combination method used takes the correlations of systematic uncertainties into account, resulting in an improved accuracy. The combined data are the sole input in a NLO QCD analysis which determines a new set of parton distributions, HERAPDF1.0, with small experimental uncertainties. This set includes an estimate of the model and parametrisation uncertainties of the fit result.

title: The spectrometer system for measuring ZEUS luminosity at HERA
abstract: The upgrade of the HERA accelerator has provided much increased collider luminosity. In turn, the improvements have necessitated a new design for the ZEUS luminosity measurements. The intense synchrotron radiation field, as well as the high probability of a bremsstrahlung photon in each bunch crossing, posed new experimental constraints. In this report, we describe how these challenges were met with the ZEUS luminosity spectrometer system. The design, testing and commissioning of the device are described, and the results from the initial operational experience are reported.

title: Measurement of prompt photons with associated jets in photoproduction at HERA
abstract: The photoproduction of prompt photons, together with an accompanying jet, has been studied in ep collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 77 pb-1. Cross sections were measured for the transverse energy of the photon and the jet larger than 5 and 6 GeV, respectively. The differential γ+jet cross sections were reconstructed as functions of the transverse energy, pseudorapidity and xγobs, the fraction of the incoming photon momentum taken by the photon-jet system. Predictions based on leading-logarithm parton-shower Monte Carlo models and next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD generally underestimate the cross sections for the transverse energies of prompt photons below 7 GeV, while the kT-factorisation QCD calculation agrees with the data better. When the minimum transverse energy of prompt photons is increased to 7 GeV, both NLO QCD and the kT-factorisation calculations are in good agreement with the data.

title: Measurement of charm fragmentation ratios and fractions in photoproduction at HERA
abstract: The production of D, D, D, D s and Λ + c charm hadrons and their antiparticles in ep scattering at HERA was measured with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 79 pb. The measurement has been performed in the photoproduction regime with the exchanged-photon virtuality Q < 1 GeV and for photon-proton centre-of-mass energies in the range 130 < W < 300 GeV. The charm hadrons were reconstructed in the range of transverse momentum pT (D, Λc) > 3.8 GeV and pseudorapidity |η(D, Λc)| < 1.6. The production cross sections were used to determine the ratio of neutral and charged D-meson production rates, Ru/d, the strangeness-suppression factor, γs, and the fraction of charged D mesons produced in a vector state, P d v . The measured Ru/d and γs values agree with those obtained in deep inelastic scattering and in ee annihilations. The measured P d v value is smaller than, but consistent with, the previous measurements. The fractions of c quarks hadronising as a particular charm hadron, f(c → D, Λc), were derived in the given kinematic range. The measured open-charm fragmentation fractions are consistent with previous results, although the measured f(c → D) is smaller and f(c → Λc ) is larger than those obtained in ee annihilations. These results generally support the hypothesis that fragmentation proceeds independently of the hard sub-process. The ZEUS Collaboration S. Chekanov, M. Derrick, S. Magill, S. Miglioranzi, B. Musgrave, J. Repond, R. Yoshida Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4815, USA n M.C.K. Mattingly Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-0380, USA N. Pavel, A.G. Yagües Molina Institut für Physik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany 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, A. Polini, L. Rinaldi, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi University and INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy e G. Aghuzumtsyan, D. Bartsch, I. Brock, S. Goers, H. Hartmann, E. Hilger, P. Irrgang, H.-P. Jakob, O.M. Kind, U. Meyer, E. Paul, J. Rautenberg, R. Renner, M. Wang, M. Wlasenko Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany b D.S. Bailey, N.H. Brook, J.E. Cole, G.P. Heath, T. Namsoo, S. Robins H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom m M. Capua, S. Fazio, A. Mastroberardino, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, E. Tassi Calabria University, Physics Department and INFN, Cosenza, Italy e J.Y. Kim, K.J. Ma Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea g M. Helbich, Y. Ning, Z. Ren, W.B. Schmidke, F. Sciulli Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, Irvington on Hudson, New York 10027 o J. Chwastowski, A. Eskreys, J. Figiel, A. Galas, M. Gil, K. Olkiewicz, P. Stopa, D. Szuba, L. Zawiejski The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland i L. Adamczyk, T. Bo ld, I. Grabowska-Bo ld, D. Kisielewska, J. Lukasik, M. Przybycień, L. Suszycki, J. Szuba Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland p A. Kotański, W. S lomiński Department of Physics, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland

title: Measurement of azimuthal asymmetries in neutral current deep inelastic scattering at HERA
abstract: The distribution of the azimuthal angle of charged and neutral hadrons relative to the lepton plane has been studied for neutral current deep inelastic ep scattering using an integrated luminosity of 45 pb-1 taken with the ZEUS detector. The kinematic range is 100<Q2<8000 GeV2, 0.2<y<0.8 and 0.01<x<0.1 where Q2 is the virtuality of the exchanged boson, y is the inelasticity and x is the Bjorken variable. The measurements were made in the hadronic centre-of-mass system. The analysis exploits the energy-flow method, which allows the measurement to be made over a larger range of pseudorapidity compared to previous results. The dependence of the moments of the azimuthal distributions on the pseudorapidity and minimum transverse energy of the final-state hadrons are presented. Although the predictions from next-to-leading-order QCD describe the data better than do the Monte Carlo models incorporating leading-logarithm parton showers, they still fail to describe the magnitude of the asymmetries. This suggests that higher-order calculations may be necessary to describe these data.

title: Measurement of isolated photons accompanied by jets in deep inelastic ep scattering
abstract: The production of isolated high-energy photons accompanied by jets has been measured in deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA, using an integrated luminosity of 326pb -1 . Measurements were made for exchanged photon virtualities, Q 2 , in the range 10 to 350GeV 2 . The photons were measured in the transverse-energy and pseudorapidity ranges 4 γ jet <1.8. Differential cross sections are presented as functions of these quantities. Perturbative QCD predictions give a reasonable description of the shape of the measured cross sections over most of the kinematic range, but the absolute normalisation is typically in disagreement by 20-30%.

title: Elastic electron scattering on exotic light proton-rich nuclei
abstract: Recent experiments show that there may exist proton halos in exotic light proton-rich nuclei. We investigate the effect of an extended proton density distribution on the cross sections and form factors of elastic electron scattering from the exotic proton drip-line nuclei $^{28}\mathrm{S}$ and $^{12}\mathrm{O}$. With charge density distributions from the self-consistent relativistic mean field model, we calculate the cross sections and form factors for elastic electron scattering in the eikonal approximation. The numerical results are compared with the available data of the stable nuclei $^{32}\mathrm{S}$ and $^{16}\mathrm{O}$. The results show that the form factors and cross sections for elastic electron scattering at intermediate-momentum transfers are very sensitive to the alterations of the charge density distributions of the last protons in exotic nuclei $^{28}\mathrm{S}$ and $^{12}\mathrm{O}$. This is an interesting combination of the reliable relativistic mean field model with the model of electron-nucleus scattering and it can be useful for future experiments.

title: Systematic study of new data for extreme alpha decays
abstract: Recently discovered alpha decays with new or improved data, covering naturally occurring alpha emitters with long lifetimes, short-lived ones approaching the proton drip line, and decays of heavy and superheavy elements, have been studied in a systematic investigation within the modified two-potential approach for deformed nuclei by constructing the microscopic double-folding potential. It is found that the experimental half-lives are well reproduced in the density-dependent cluster model. Some predictions on natural alpha emitters and alpha decays of several proton emitters are made in this study. Moreover, the alpha-decay half-lives of even-even superheavy nuclei with Z = 110-114 and N = 184-194 are estimated to pursue the quite stable nuclei around the proton Z similar to 114 and neutron N similar to 184 shell closures. These predictions can be useful for future experiments aimed at searching for long-lived natural elements.

title: Microscopic calculation of α-decay half-lives with a deformed potential
abstract: A new version of the generalized density-dependent cluster model is presented to describe an α particle tunneling through a deformed potential barrier. The microscopic deformed potential is numerically constructed in the double-folding model by the multipole expansion method. The decay width is computed using the coupled-channel Schrodinger equation with outgoing wave boundary conditions. We perform a systematic calculation on α-decay half-lives of even-even nuclei ranging from Z = 52 to Z = 104, including 65 well-deformed ones. The calculated α-decay half-lives are found to be in good agreement with the experimental values. There also exists good agreement with the available experimental branching ratios for well-deformed systems.

title: Theoretical study of nuclear charge densities with elastic electron scattering
abstract: The calculated cross sections for elastic Coulomb electron scattering from the phase-shift analysis method and the eikonal approximation are compared. It is shown that the phase-shift analysis method can reproduce the experimental data very well for both light and heavy nuclei. Then the phase-shift analysis is used to investigate elastic electron scattering along the O and S isotopic chains, where the charge densities are obtained from relativistic mean-field theory. Results show that the minima of the differential cross section shift inward and upward with the increase of the neutron number.

title: Temporal variation of the fine structure constant and the strong interaction parameter in the 229Th transition
abstract: The very low energy ( 7.6 ± 0.5 eV ) of the long-lived isomer state in 229Th has inspired the idea that the transition between this isomer and the ground state might be used to measure the temporal variation of some fundamental physical constants with great enhanced sensitivity in laboratory. Physicists have used several models to test whether this significantly enhanced sensitivity does exist. However, incongruous conclusions were reached. Based on the formulae derived from Feynman–Hellmann theorem, we reexamine the physics involved in those argument by the relativistic mean field theory. The results show that the correlation between the nuclear strong interaction and Coulomb force is important and cannot be neglected. The sensitivity to variations of fine structure constant, nucleon mass and meson masses could be enhanced by several orders of magnitude in the 229Th transition.