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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1996

Abstract

We present measurements of the structure function F2 in e+p scattering at HERA in the range 3.5 GeV2 < Q2 < 5000 GeV2. A new reconstruction method has allowed a significant improvement in the resolution of the kinematic variables and an extension of the kinematic region covered by the experiment. At Q2 < 35 GeV2 the range in x now spans 6.3 · 10-5 < x < 0.08 providing overlap with measurements from fixed target experiments. At values of Q2 above 1000 GeV2 the x range extends to 0.5. Systematic errors below 5% have been achieved for most of the kinematic region. The structure function rises as x decreases; the rise becomes more pronounced as Q2 increases. The behaviour of the structure function data is well described by next-to-leading order perturbative QCD as implemented in the DGLAP evolution equations. © Springer-Verlag 1996.

Journal Title

Zeitschrift fur Physik C-Particles and Fields

Volume

72

Issue

3

First Page

399

Last Page

424

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s002880050260

First Department

Physics

Acknowledgements

Accepted version retrieved July 20, 2021 from https://www.andrews.edu/sed/gpc/faculty-research/coffen-research/coffen_2009_600.pdf

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