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Final combined deep inelastic scattering cross sections at HERA

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2016-07-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The combination is presented of all inclusive deep inelastic scattering cross sections previously published by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA for neutral and charged current epep scattering for zero beam polarisation. The data were taken at proton beam energies of 920, 820, 575 and 460 GeV and an electron beam energy of 27.5 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 1 fb1^{-1} and span six orders of magnitude in negative four-momentum-transfer squared, Q2Q^2, and Bjorken xx. The correlations of the systematic uncertainties were evaluated and taken into account for the combination. The combined cross sections were input to QCD analyses at leading order, next-to-leading order and at next-to-next-to-leading order, providing a new set of parton distribution functions, called HERAPDF2.0. Additionally, the inclusion of jet-production cross sections made a simultaneous and precise determination of parton distributions and the strong coupling constant possible. Brief highlights of the results are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1607.00790,
  title  = {Final combined deep inelastic scattering cross sections at HERA},
  author = {M. Wing},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00790},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in proceedings for Excited QCD 2016 workshop

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