https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2531-6
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Hadron transverse momentum distributions in muon deep inelastic scattering at 160 GeV/c
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Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany
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Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany
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Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Universität Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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Institute of Scientific Instruments, AS CR, 61264, Brno, Czech Republic
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Matrivani Institute of Experimental Research & Education, Calcutta, 700 030, India
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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Physikalisches Institut, Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, 79104, Freiburg, Germany
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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Technical University in Liberec, 46117, Liberec, Czech Republic
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LIP, 1000-149, Lisbon, Portugal
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Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany
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University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan
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Lebedev Physical Institute, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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Department für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80799, Munich, Germany
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Physik Department, Technische Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany
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Nagoya University, 464, Nagoya, Japan
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, 18000, Prague, Czech Republic
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Czech Technical University in Prague, 16636, Prague, Czech Republic
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Institute for High Energy Physics, State Research Center of the Russian Federation, 142281, Protvino, Russia
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CEA IRFU/SPhN Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Trieste Section of INFN, 34127, Trieste, Italy
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Department of Physics and Trieste Section of INFN, University of Trieste, 34127, Trieste, Italy
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Abdus Salam ICTP and Trieste Section of INFN, 34127, Trieste, Italy
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Department of Physics and Torino Section of INFN, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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Torino Section of INFN, 10125, Turin, Italy
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University of Eastern Piedmont, 15100, Alessandria, Italy
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Torino Section of INFN, 10125, Turin, Italy
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, 00-681, Warsaw, Poland
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Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 00-681, Warsaw, Poland
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Institute of Radioelectronics, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-665, Warsaw, Poland
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Yamagata University, Yamagata, 992-8510, Japan
* e-mail: Andrea.Bressan@cern.ch
Received:
31
May
2013
Revised:
30
July
2013
Published online:
23
August
2013
Multiplicities of charged hadrons produced in deep inelastic muon scattering off a 6LiD target have been measured as a function of the DIS variables x
Bj
, Q
2, W
2 and the final state hadron variables p
T
and z. The distributions are fitted with a single exponential function at low values of
to determine the dependence of
on x
Bj
, Q
2, W
2 and z. The z-dependence of
is shown to be a potential tool to extract the average intrinsic transverse momentum squared of partons,
, as a function of x
Bj
and Q
2 in a leading order QCD parton model.
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