Measurement of the 1-jettiness in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA

TL;DR

This paper presents the first measurement of the 1-jettiness event shape in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA, providing insights into QCD effects, parton distributions, and the strong coupling constant.

Contribution

It introduces the first measurement of the 1-jettiness observable in DIS and demonstrates its sensitivity to QCD parameters and proton structure.

Findings

Data are sensitive to the strong coupling constant.

Results show sensitivity to resummation and hadronisation effects.

Comparison with predictions validates QCD models.

Abstract

A first measurement of the 1-jettiness event shape observable $\tau_1^b$ in neutral-current deep inelastic scattering is presented. For the measurement, the equivalence of $\tau_1^b$ to the DIS thrust observable defined in the Breit frame is utilised. The data were taken by the H1 experiment at HERA from 2003 to 2007 at a centre of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=319 \text{ GeV}$. The data amount to an integrated luminosity of $351.6\text{ pb}^{-1}$. The triple-differential cross sections are presented as a function of the 1-jettiness $\tau^1_b$, the virtuality of the exchanged boson $Q^2$ and the inelasticity of the event $y$. The data exhibit a sensitivity to the strong coupling constant and to resummation and hadronisation effects, as well as to the parton distribution functions of the proton. The data are compared to selected predictions.