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ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA1 Vladimir Chekelian (MPI for Physics, Munich) e  p 27.5 GeV 920 GeV  s = 318 GeV DIS & NC & Polarisation.

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1 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA1 Vladimir Chekelian (MPI for Physics, Munich) e  p 27.5 GeV 920 GeV  s = 318 GeV DIS & NC & Polarisation Unpolarised DIS: HERA II xF 3 Polarised NC Neutral Current DIS with polarised e + /e - at HERA HERA II: longitudinal polarisation of the lepton beam (for CC see talk of Alex Tapper)

2 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA2 Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA ^  perturbative QCD cross section pdf  universal parton distribution functions DIS kinematics: Q 2 = -q 2 = -(k-k’) 2 virtuality of g *, Z 0 x = Q 2 /2(Pq) Bjorken x y = (Pq)/(Pk) inelasticity Q 2 = sxy s=(k+P) 2  probe proton with the spatial resolution of l ~ 1/Q  probe the EW sector of the Standard Model Neutral Current (NC) DIS : e  p  e  X

3 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA3 NC cross section Reduced cross section: F 2 dominant contribution x F 3 important at high Q 2 ; difference in the sign for e  F L important only at high y; expected to be negligible at high Q 2 & x; in QPM F L = F 2 – 2xF 1 = 0 e + e - L L R R

4 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA4 Polarised NC Structure Functions in QPM: N R (N L )- number of right (left) handed leptons in the beam

5 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA5 HERA II performance - longitudinally polarised lepton beams natural transverse polarisation (Sokolov-Ternov effect) + spin rotators typically P e = 30-40% build-up time ~30min HERA II: - detectors and luminosity upgrade data taking with positrons till mid 2007:  double the sofar collected statistics  low proton energy run for direct F L measurement e - e + e - Lumi (P e ) e + p (2003-04) e - p (2004-05) H1 27 pb -1 (+34%) 30 pb -1 (+37%) 21 pb -1 ( -40%) 69 pb -1 ( -27%) ZEUS 12 pb -1 (+32%) 43 pb -1 (+33%) 12 pb -1 ( -41%) 79 pb -1 ( -27%) HERA I  100 pb -1  15 pb -1

6 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA6 NC&CC DIS at HERA II Neutral Current e±pe±p Charged Current Unpolarised results: combine e + (e - ) data with different polarisations and correct for small residual polarisation Probe proton: quarks are pointlike down to 1/1000 of the proton radius r < 10 -18 m EW component of SM:  NC   CC at Q 2  M Z 2,M W 2  electro-weak unification

7 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA7 Unpolarised NC: d 2  /dxdQ 2 e - p lumi at HERA II: 6-8 fold of HERA I  determine xF 3

8 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA8 Structure Function xF 3 Precision of xF 3 is improved by ~ 20% due to larger e - p statistics at HERA II mostly due to gZ interference 

9 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA9 Little dependence on Q 2  transform to one Q 2 value of 1500 GeV 2  and average (all Q 2 & H1 & ZEUS) consistent with H1 PDF 2000 fit: 1.12 ± 0.02 ZEUS+Jets fit: 1.06 ± 0.02 Combined H1 & ZEUS results: consistent with zero Sum rule (counting of the valence quarks):

10 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA10 Polarised NC: d 2  /dxdQ 2 small differences between cross sections at highest Q 2 due to polarisation polarised double differential cross sections are used in the combined PDF & EW fit  see talk of Yong Dok Ri to emphasize an effect of polarisation: single diff. cross sections  e-p e-p P e =-0.27 P e =+0.33

11 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA11 Polarised NC: d  /dQ 2 Each experiment: 2 lepton beam polarities and 2 polarisation periods H1 e-pe-p e-pe-p e+p e+p e+p e+p

12 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA12 NC: polarisation ratios  (P e >0)/  (P e <0 ) Polarisation effects in NC at HERA are established e+p e+p e+p e+p e-pe-p e-pe-p

13 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA13 Polarisation asymmetry Polarisation asymmetry ( H1, ZEUS, H1 & ZEUS ): A + and A - are of opposite sign d A = A + -A -  0 at low Q 2 and significantly >0 at high Q 2 c 2 for d A with respect to zero ( Q 2 > 5000 GeV 2 ): c 2 /dof = 4.0 probability of 3.1 10 -3 for d A to be zero  a direct measure of parity violation in NC A+A+ A-A-

14 ICHEP'06, 27.07.2006V. Chekelian, NC DIS at HERA14 Summary - The NC cross sections for e  p scattering with longitudinally polarised lepton beams are measured at HERA for the first time. - The structure functions xF 3, xF 3 g Z directly sensitive to valence quark distributions are determined. - Clear evidence of parity violation in the NC interactions at high Q 2 is observed. - The results are presented individually for H1, ZEUS and, for the first time, as combined HERA results. - The Standard Model is able to provide an excellent description of the data.


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