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Zeitschrift für Physik C
ISSN: 0170-9739 (printed version)
ISSN: 1431-5858 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 74 Issue 3 (1997) pp 509-515
Properties of HERA events from DIS on pions in the proton
M. Przybycie'n (1) (*), A. Szczurek (2), G. Ingelman (3)(4)
(1) Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Al. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30-059 Cracow, Poland
(2) Institute of Nuclear Physics, ul.Radzikowskiego 152, PL-31-342 Cracow, Poland
(3) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22603 Hamburg, FRG
(4) Dept. of Radiation Sciences, Uppsala University, Box 535, S-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
Received: 14 May 1996
Abstract. Recently the concept of the pion cloud in the nucleon turned out to be successful in understanding the Gottfried sum rule violation observed by the New Muon Collaboration and the Drell-Yan asymmetry measured in NA51 at CERN. We propose a further possibility to test this concept at HERA through the analysis of the structure of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) events induced by pion-exchange. Momentum and energy distributions of outgoing nucleons as well as rapidity and multiplicity distributions are investigated using Monte Carlo simulations. Most observables cannot distinguish this process from ordinary DIS, but in the energy distribution of final neutrons we find a significantly different prediction from the pion cloud model. Forward neutron calorimeters will be essential to test the concept of pions in the nucleon.
(*) supported by the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research, grant No.2P03B 244 08p02
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