Eur. Phys. J. C 21, 443-471 (2001)
DOI: 10.1007/s100520100749
Measurement of the neutral current cross section and F2 structure function for deep inelastic e+p scattering at HERA
The ZEUS Collaboration S. Chekanov and et al.Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
(Received: 30 May 2001 / Published online: 24 August 2001 -© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica 2001 )
Abstract
The cross section
and the proton structure function F2
for neutral current deep inelastic e+p scattering
have been measured
with the ZEUS detector at HERA
using an integrated luminosity of 30 pb-1.
The data
were collected in 1996 and 1997
at a centre-of-mass energy of 300 GeV.
They cover the kinematic range
2.7 < Q2 < 30000 GeV2
and
.
The variation of
F2 with x and Q2
is well described by next-to-leading-order
perturbative QCD as implemented in
the DGLAP evolution equations.
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