Measurement of (anti)deuteron and (anti)proton production in DIS at HERA

The ZEUS collaboration Chekanov, S. ; Derrick, M. ; Magill, S. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 786 (2007) 181-205, 2007.
Inspire Record 751504 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.45516

The first observation of (anti)deuterons in deep inelastic scattering at HERA has been made with the ZEUS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 300--318 GeV using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb-1. The measurement was performed in the central rapidity region for transverse momentum per unit of mass in the range 0.3<p_T/M<0.7. The particle rates have been extracted and interpreted in terms of the coalescence model. The (anti)deuteron production yield is smaller than the (anti)proton yield by approximately three orders of magnitude, consistent with the world measurements.

7 data tables

Measured invariant cross section for P production.

Measured invariant cross section for DEUT production.

Measured invariant cross section for PBAR production.

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