M. Derrick et al., INCLUSIVE CHARGED-PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS IN DEEP-INELASTIC SCATTERINGEVENTS AT HERA, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 70(1), 1996, pp. 1-15
A measurement of inclusive charged particle distributions in deep inel
astic ep scattering for gammap centre-of-mass energies 75 < W < 175 G
eV and momentum transfer squared 10 < Q(2) < 160 GeV2 from the ZEUS de
tector at HERA is presented. The differential charged particle rates i
n the gammap centre-of-mass system as a function of the scaled longit
udinal momentum, x(F), and of the transverse momentum, p(t) and [p(t)
(2)], as a function of x(F), W and Q(2) are given, Separate distribut
ions are shown for events with (LRG) and without (NRG) a rapidity gap
with respect to the proton direction. The data are compared with resul
ts from experiments at lower beam energies, with the naive quark parto
n model and with parton models including perturbative QCD corrections,
The comparison shows the importance of the higher order QCD processes
. Significant differences of the inclusive charged particle rates betw
een NRG and LRG events at the same W are observed, The value of [p(t)(
2)] for LRG events with a hadronic mass M(X), which excludes the forw
ard produced baryonic system, is similar to the [p(t)(2)] value obser
ved in fixed target experiments at W approximate to M(X).