Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74: 3029
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3029-6

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

QCD analysis of forward neutron production in DIS

IFPA, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 août, Bât B5a, 4000, Liège, Belgium

^* e-mail: federico.ceccopieri@hotmail.it

Received: 9 June 2014
Accepted: 10 August 2014
Published online: 28 August 2014

Abstract

We consider forward neutron production in DIS within fracture functions formalism. By performing a QCD analysis of available data we extract proton-to-neutron fracture functions exploiting a method which is in close relation with the factorisation theorem for this class of processes.