Measurement of the Q2, x and W2 dependence of single hadron production in deep inelastic muon scattering

• Published in: Physics letters. B 1982-01, Vol.114 (5), p.373-377
• Main Authors: Aubert, J.J., Bassompierre, G., Becks, K.H., Best, C., Böhm, E., de Bouard, X., Brasse, F.W., Broll, C., Brown, S., Carr, J., Clifft, R.W., Cobb, J.H., Coignet, G., Combley, F., Court, G.R., Crespo, J.M., Dalpiaz, P.F., Dalpiaz, P., Dau, W.D., Davies, J.K., Déclais, Y., Dobinson, R.W., Dosselli, U., Drees, J., Edwards, A., Edwards, M., Favier, J., Ferrero, M.I., Flauger, W., Forsbach, H., Gabathuler, E., Gamet, R., Gayler, J., Gerhardt, V., Gössling, C., Gregory, P., Haas, J., Hamacher, K., Hayman, P., Henckes, M., Korbel, V., Landgraf, U., Leenen, M., Maire, M., Massonnet, L., Minssieux, H., Mohr, W., Montgomery, H.E., Moser, K., Mount, R.P., Nagy, E., Norton, P.R., McNicholas, J., Osborne, A.M., Payre, P., Peroni, C., Pessard, H., Pietrzyk, U., Rith, K., Schneegans, M., Sloan, T., Stier, H.E., Stockhausen, W., Thénard, J.M., Thompson, J.C., Urban, L., Villers, M., Wahlen, H., Whalley, M., Williams, D., Williams, W.S.C., Wimpenny, S.J.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0370-2693; 1873-2445
• DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(82)90365-3

Measurements are presented of the distributions in scaled energy of the hadrons produced in high energy muon scattering. The observed dependence on x (non-factorisation) and Q 2 (scaling violation) is similar to that expected from next to leading order QCD calculations. These variations in the data can be equivalently represented by a dependence on the single variable W 2.