29 research outputs found

    Unbinned Deep Learning Jet Substructure Measurement in High Q2Q^2 ep collisions at HERA

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    The radiation pattern within high energy quark- and gluon-initiated jets (jet substructure) is used extensively as a precision probe of the strong force as well as an environment for optimizing event generators with numerous applications in high energy particle and nuclear physics. Looking at electron-proton collisions is of particular interest as many of the complications present at hadron colliders are absent. A detailed study of modern jet substructure observables, jet angularities, in electron-proton collisions is presented using data recorded using the H1 detector at HERA. The measurement is unbinned and multi-dimensional, using machine learning to correct for detector effects. All of the available reconstructed object information of the respective jets is interpreted by a graph neural network, achieving superior precision on a selected set of jet angularities. Training these networks was enabled by the use of a large number of GPUs in the Perlmutter supercomputer at Berkeley Lab. The particle jets are reconstructed in the laboratory frame, using the kTk_{\mathrm{T}} jet clustering algorithm. Results are reported at high transverse momentum transfer Q2>150Q^2>150 GeV2{}^2, and inelasticity 0.2<y<0.70.2 < y < 0.7. The analysis is also performed in sub-regions of Q2Q^2, thus probing scale dependencies of the substructure variables. The data are compared with a variety of predictions and point towards possible improvements of such models.Comment: 33 pages, 10 figures, 8 table

    Impact of jet-production data on the next-to-next-to-leading-order determination of HERAPDF2.0 parton distributions

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    The HERAPDF2.0 ensemble of parton distribution functions (PDFs) was introduced in 2015. The final stage is presented, a next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) analysis of the HERA data on inclusive deep inelastic ep scattering together with jet data as published by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations. A perturbative QCD fit, simultaneously of αs(M2Z) and the PDFs, was performed with the result αs(M2Z)=0.1156±0.0011 (exp) +0.0001−0.0002 (model +parameterisation) ±0.0029 (scale). The PDF sets of HERAPDF2.0Jets NNLO were determined with separate fits using two fixed values of αs(M2Z), αs(M2Z)=0.1155 and 0.118, since the latter value was already chosen for the published HERAPDF2.0 NNLO analysis based on HERA inclusive DIS data only. The different sets of PDFs are presented, evaluated and compared. The consistency of the PDFs determined with and without the jet data demonstrates the consistency of HERA inclusive and jet-production cross-section data. The inclusion of the jet data reduced the uncertainty on the gluon PDF. Predictions based on the PDFs of HERAPDF2.0Jets NNLO give an excellent description of the jet-production data used as input

    Impact of jet-production data on the next-to-next-to-leading-order determination of HERAPDF2.0 parton distributions

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    International audienceThe HERAPDF2.0 ensemble of parton distribution functions (PDFs) was introduced in 2015. The final stage is presented, a next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) analysis of the HERA data on inclusive deep inelastic ep scattering together with jet data as published by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations. A perturbative QCD fit, simultaneously of αs(MZ2)\alpha _s(M_Z^2) and the PDFs, was performed with the result αs(MZ2)=0.1156±0.0011 (exp) 0.0002+0.0001 (model+parameterisation) ±0.0029 (scale)\alpha _s(M_Z^2)= 0.1156 \pm 0.0011~\mathrm{(exp)}~ ^{+0.0001}_{-0.0002}~ \mathrm{(model}\mathrm{+ parameterisation)}~ \pm 0.0029~\mathrm{(scale)}. The PDF sets of HERAPDF2.0Jets NNLO were determined with separate fits using two fixed values of αs(MZ2)\alpha _s(M_Z^2), αs(MZ2)=0.1155\alpha _s(M_Z^2)=0.1155 and 0.118, since the latter value was already chosen for the published HERAPDF2.0 NNLO analysis based on HERA inclusive DIS data only. The different sets of PDFs are presented, evaluated and compared. The consistency of the PDFs determined with and without the jet data demonstrates the consistency of HERA inclusive and jet-production cross-section data. The inclusion of the jet data reduced the uncertainty on the gluon PDF. Predictions based on the PDFs of HERAPDF2.0Jets NNLO give an excellent description of the jet-production data used as input

    Fermilab Test Beam Facility Annual Report: FY19

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    This Technical Memorandum (TM) summarizes the Fermilab Test Beam Faciltiy (FTBF) operations for FY2019. It is one of a series of annual publications intended to gather information in one place. This TM discusses the experiments performed at the Test Beam from November 2018 to July 2019. The experiments are listed in Table 1. Each experiment wrote a summary that was edited for clarity and is included in this report

    Observation and differential cross section measurement of neutral current DIS events with an empty hemisphere in the Breit frame

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    International audienceThe Breit frame provides a natural frame to analyze lepton-proton scattering events. In this reference frame, the parton model hard interactions between a quark and an exchanged boson defines the coordinate system such that the struck quark is back-scattered along the virtual photon momentum direction. In Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), higher order perturbative or non-perturbative effects can change this picture drastically. As Bjorken-xx decreases below one half, a rather peculiar event signature is predicted with increasing probability, where no radiation is present in one of the two Breit-frame hemispheres and all emissions are to be found in the other hemisphere. At higher orders in αs\alpha_s or in the presence of soft QCD effects, predictions of the rate of these events are far from trivial, and that motivates measurements with real data. We report on the first observation of the empty current hemisphere events in electron-proton collisions at the HERA collider using data recorded with the H1 detector at a center-of-mass energy of 319 GeV. The fraction of inclusive neutral-current DIS events with an empty hemisphere is found to be 0.0112±3.9%stat±4.5%syst±1.6%mod0.0112 \pm 3.9\,\%_\text{stat} \pm 4.5\,\%_\text{syst} \pm 1.6\,\%_\text{mod} in the selected kinematic region of 150<Q2<1500150< Q^2<1500 GeV2^2 and inelasticity 0.14<y<0.70.14< y<0.7. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 351.1 pb1^{-1}, sufficient to enable differential cross section measurements of these events. The results show an enhanced discriminating power at lower Bjorken-xx among different Monte Carlo event generator predictions

    Observation and differential cross section measurement of neutral current DIS events with an empty hemisphere in the Breit frame

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    The Breit frame provides a natural frame to analyze lepton-proton scattering events. In this reference frame, the parton model hard interactions between a quark and an exchanged boson defines the coordinate system such that the struck quark is back-scattered along the virtual photon momentum direction. In Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), higher order perturbative or non-perturbative effects can change this picture drastically. As Bjorken-xx decreases below one half, a rather peculiar event signature is predicted with increasing probability, where no radiation is present in one of the two Breit-frame hemispheres and all emissions are to be found in the other hemisphere. At higher orders in αs\alpha_s or in the presence of soft QCD effects, predictions of the rate of these events are far from trivial, and that motivates measurements with real data. We report on the first observation of the empty current hemisphere events in electron-proton collisions at the HERA collider using data recorded with the H1 detector at a center-of-mass energy of 319 GeV. The fraction of inclusive neutral-current DIS events with an empty hemisphere is found to be 0.0112±3.9%stat±4.5%syst±1.6%mod0.0112 \pm 3.9\,\%_\text{stat} \pm 4.5\,\%_\text{syst} \pm 1.6\,\%_\text{mod} in the selected kinematic region of 150<Q2<1500150< Q^2<1500 GeV2^2 and inelasticity 0.14<y<0.70.14< y<0.7. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 351.1 pb1^{-1}, sufficient to enable differential cross section measurements of these events. The results show an enhanced discriminating power at lower Bjorken-xx among different Monte Carlo event generator predictions

    Observation and differential cross section measurement of neutral current DIS events with an empty hemisphere in the Breit frame

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    International audienceThe Breit frame provides a natural frame to analyze lepton-proton scattering events. In this reference frame, the parton model hard interactions between a quark and an exchanged boson defines the coordinate system such that the struck quark is back-scattered along the virtual photon momentum direction. In Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), higher order perturbative or non-perturbative effects can change this picture drastically. As Bjorken-xx decreases below one half, a rather peculiar event signature is predicted with increasing probability, where no radiation is present in one of the two Breit-frame hemispheres and all emissions are to be found in the other hemisphere. At higher orders in αs\alpha_s or in the presence of soft QCD effects, predictions of the rate of these events are far from trivial, and that motivates measurements with real data. We report on the first observation of the empty current hemisphere events in electron-proton collisions at the HERA collider using data recorded with the H1 detector at a center-of-mass energy of 319 GeV. The fraction of inclusive neutral-current DIS events with an empty hemisphere is found to be 0.0112±3.9%stat±4.5%syst±1.6%mod0.0112 \pm 3.9\,\%_\text{stat} \pm 4.5\,\%_\text{syst} \pm 1.6\,\%_\text{mod} in the selected kinematic region of 150<Q2<1500150< Q^2<1500 GeV2^2 and inelasticity 0.14<y<0.70.14< y<0.7. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 351.1 pb1^{-1}, sufficient to enable differential cross section measurements of these events. The results show an enhanced discriminating power at lower Bjorken-xx among different Monte Carlo event generator predictions

    Measurement of the 1-jettiness event shape observable in deep-inelastic electron-proton scattering at HERA

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    International audienceThe H1 Collaboration reports the first measurement of the 1-jettiness event shape observable τ1b\tau_1^b in neutral-current deep-inelastic electron-proton scattering (DIS). The observable τ1b\tau_1^b is equivalent to a thrust observable defined in the Breit frame. The data sample was collected at the HERA epep collider in the years 2003-2007 with center-of-mass energy of s=319GeV\sqrt{s}=319\,\text{GeV}, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 351.1pb1351.1\,\text{pb}^{-1}. Triple differential cross sections are provided as a function of τ1b\tau_1^b, event virtuality Q2Q^2, and inelasticity yy, in the kinematic region Q2>150GeV2Q^2>150\,\text{GeV}^{2}. Single differential cross section are provided as a function of τ1b\tau_1^b in a limited kinematic range. Double differential cross sections are measured, in contrast, integrated over τ1b\tau_1^b and represent the inclusive neutral-current DIS cross section measured as a function of Q2Q^2 and yy. The data are compared to a variety of predictions and include classical and modern Monte Carlo event generators, predictions in fixed-order perturbative QCD where calculations up to O(αs3)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3) are available for τ1b\tau_1^b or inclusive DIS, and resummed predictions at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy matched to fixed order predictions at O(αs2)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^2). These comparisons reveal sensitivity of the 1-jettiness observable to QCD parton shower and resummation effects, as well as the modeling of hadronization and fragmentation. Within their range of validity, the fixed-order predictions provide a good description of the data. Monte Carlo event generators are predictive over the full measured range and hence their underlying models and parameters can be constrained by comparing to the presented data
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