Investigation of Power Corrections to Event Shape Variables measured in
Deep-Inelastic Scattering
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The H1 experiment has measured the distributions and the
mean values of quantities related to the shape of events in deep-inelastic
scattering over a large range of the momentum transfer Q, varied between
7 and 100 GeV. The shape measures are sensitive to the flow of momenta
in the event and thus serve as indicators of the jet character of the interaction.
Jets of particles are assumed to be formed around the quarks that participate
in the hard scattering. These shape parameters have been known to be calculable
in an infrared safe manner, on the basis of quark and gluon emissions.
Such attempts, while qualitatively successful, have suffered from the presence
of additional power like hadronisation corrections in the data. Recently,
the power law corrections have been calculated in QCD. They are characterized
by a non-perturbative parameter alpha_p, which should be universal for
all such shape variables.
The
H1 measurements address these questions by extracting simultaneously the
coupling parameter alpha_s of the strong interaction and the non-perturbative
parameter alpha_p (figure). Typical values of 0.5 are found for the non-perturbative
parameter, the spread is typically 0.1. The corresponding values of alpha_s
vary between different shape measures by more than the established experimental
precision.
These findings are in agreement with similar observations of final
states in e+e- scattering, where the first data with
large variation in Q start to appear.
Last Update Dec 30, 1999, E. Elsen