Related papers: Particle Production and Fragmentation at HERA
HERA-B is a hadroproduction experiment located at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The experiment produces B mesons and baryons by inserting thin wire targets into the halo of the proton beam circulating in the HERA storage ring. The B decays are…
The production and structure of Λ hypernuclei are investigated in field theoretical models. The production in coherent p+A reactions is investigated by means of a resonance model. Results of exploratory calculations for associated…
Experimental results obtained with the HERA collider and recent progress in their theoretical interpretation are reviewed. After a short introduction to HERA physics, deep inelastic scattering and photoproduction are discussed as (virtual)…
Recent results on diffraction at HERA, as measured by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations, are reviewed. Results on the photon-proton total hadronic cross section, on vector meson production both at small and large photon virtuality and on…
We compute the contributions to large-$p_T$ $J/\psi$ production at HERA coming from fragmentation of gluons and charm quarks. We find that the charm quark fragmentation contribution dominates over the direct production of $J/\psi$ via…
The study of hyperon resonances has entered a new era of precision with advent of high-statistics photoproduction data from the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab. These data have multi-particle final states, allowing clean identification of…
Various jet observables in photoproduction are studied and compared to data from HERA. The feasibility of using a dijet sample for constraining the parton distributions in the photon is then studied. For the current data the experimental…
Recent results on hard diffraction at HERA and the Tevatron are presented. Charged particle multiplicities in diffraction and differences in multiplicity in quark and gluon jets measured at LEP are discussed. Spin effects in the…
We discuss the inclusive jet production at HERA in the next-to-leading logarithm approximation. Theoretical uncertainties are considered in some details. We show the importance of the jet rapidity distribution to constrain the parton…
Studies on the structure of the photon are presented by means of the extraction of a leading order effective parton distribution in the photon and measurements of inclusive jet differential cross sections in photoproduction. Measurements of…
Highlights selected from recent measurements of colour-singlet exchange processes at HERA are summarised. Particular emphasis is placed on energy and momentum transfer dependences and the decomposition of the data into an expansion in Regge…
Inclusive Lambda, Antilambda and K0s production in deep inelastic ep scattering has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb^-1. Differential cross sections, baryon to antibaryon asymmetry and…
Recent results from H1, ZEUS, HERMES and HERA-B on searches for exotic baryons in ep collisions, eD scattering and pA scattering at HERA are reviewed. Evidence for the production of the strange pentaquark Theta^+ and of a narrow…
Recent results, obtained by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations, are presented on differential cross sections, for inclusive prompt photon production in DIS and for photoproduction of prompt photons accompanied by a hadronic jet. Also presented…
Photoproduction data collected with the H1 detector at HERA in 1994 are used to study the cross-sections for inclusive charged particle production and the structure of the photon. The differential cross-sections dsigma/dpT2, for |eta| < 1…
Inclusive jet and multijet cross sections measured in ep collisions in different kinematic regions by the H1 and ZEUS experiments are shown. The measurements are used to extract the strong coupling alpha_s as a function of the scale and at…
Photoproduction of $D_s^{\pm}$ mesons has been measured in the ZEUS detector at HERA and compared with predictions of NLO pQCD calculations. The ratio of $D_s^{*\pm}$ to $D^{*\pm}$ cross sections has been compared to results from…
The subject of lepton-hadron scattering is discussed from its earliest beginnings, concentrating on what we have learnt from the HERA electron-proton storage ring. A brief selection of the HERA I results most relevant to LHC are discussed.…
In these lectures, we present and discuss the most recent results on inclusive diffraction from the HERA and Tevatron colliders and give the prospects for the future at the LHC. Of special interest is the exclusive production of Higgs boson…
Measurements of jet production in the photoproduction region at HERA are presented, which are sensitive to the underlying event structure. It is argued that in the photoproduction region a significant amount of multi-parton interactions in…