Dijets in high Q2 DIS at HERA-II
Jörg Behr, Thomas Schörner-Sadenius, Thorben Theedt (UHH/DESY)

Introduction

The aim of the analysis is to provide dijet cross-sections at high values of the photon virtuality, Q2, above 125 GeV2. On the one hand side these data provide precise tests of the predictions of perturbative QCD and of the concepts of factorisation and the universality of the parton distribution functions (PDfs). On the other hand these data can be used directly in NLO QCD fits of the PDFs to constrain these quantities further.

The analysis outlined here follows very closely an analysis of dijet cross-sections in HERA-I data that was published recently (see below for a link to the corresponding web page and paper). Relevant changes concern


Plots stamped preliminary

Single-differential

Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for Mjj.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO log10ksi.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO etaprime.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for Q2.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for ET,mean.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for xBj.

Double-differential

Cross-sections for log10ksi in bins of Q2.
Ratios of data over NLO for log10ksi in bins of Q2.

Here is a table of cross sections for HERA-1/HERA-2 combined (PDF).


Presentations


Data Selection

The selection corresponds to that applied in the HERA-I measurement. To summarize:
 Inclusive Sample
  Q2 [GeV2]  125-5000  DA method for reconstruction
  cos(gammahad)  (-0.65) - (0.65)  reconstructed from ZUFOs.
  Eel [GeV]  > 10  after energy calibration
  isolation  standard cone cut  
  zvtx [cm]  (-32) - 31  
 pT/sqrt(ET) [sqrt(GeV)]  < 2.5  
  E-pz [GeV]  45-62  
 Dijets Sample
 ET,Breit,1 [GeV]  12  Applied after hadronic scale and jet energy correction
 ET,Breit,2 [GeV]  8  Applied after hadronic scale and jet energy correction
 etaBreit  (-2) - 1.5  
 ET,lab [GeV]  > 3  
 etaT,lab  < 2.5  
     Removing events if jets too far back or too close to electron.

Link to paper on HERA-I data

You can find the final version of the paper as accepted by the journal here.

Link to web page for HERA-I analysis

You can find the web page containing the accompagnying material for the dijets analysis of HERA-I data here.

Control plots

Inclusive sample

The following plots show a comparison between the HERA-II data after event selection and the two MC samples (ARIADNE and LEPTO).
Variable set 1 linear and logarithmic scale.
Variable set 2 linear and logarithmic scale.

Dijet sample

The following plots show comparisons between the dijet distributions in the data and in the two MC samples (ARIADNE and LEPTO). On the left is shown the comparison for HERA-I (HERA-I analysis redone by Jörg), on the rigt for HERA-II.
Q2, Mjj and log>sub>10ksi on linear and logarithmic scale.
Mean ET, xBj and etaprime on linear and logarithmic scale.
log>sub>10ksi in different bins of Q2 on linear and logarithmic scale.
We paid particular attention to the eta distributions in the dijets sample (again on linear and logarithmic scales).

Purities, efficiencies, corrections, and migrations

Migration matrices for the 6 inclusive dijet variables and for the double-differential distributions.
The acceptances, purities, efficiencies, QED and hadronisation corrections are shown here for the 6 inclusive dijet variables and for the double-differential distributions.
A comparison of acceptances in HERA-I and HERA-II can be found here.

Comparison first analysis (J. Behr) versus second analysis (T. Theedt)

Here you can see the comparison of cross-sections for the inclusive quantities. J. Behr's analysis in this case does not contain the additional hadronic energy scale correction. The agreement is very good.

Comparison HERA-I versus HERA-II

In the following two plots, you can see the comparison of J. Behr's analysis to the published HERA-1 data.

Theoretical uncertainties and further details

For all questions concerning the theory please refer to the web page for the HERA-1 analysis since all theory input is identical to the one used then (including hadronisation and QED corrections).

Cross sections for HERA-2(for test)

Single-differential

Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for Q2 and Mjj.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for ET,mean and log10ksi.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for xBj and etaprime.

Double-differential

Cross-sections for log10ksi in bins of Q2.
Ratios of data over NLO for log10ksi in bins of Q2.

Here is a table of cross sections for HERA-2 (PDF).


Cross sections for HERA-1/HERA-2 combined (stamped preliminary)

Single-differential

Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for Mjj.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO log10ksi.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO etaprime.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for Q2.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for ET,mean.
Cross-sections and ratios to NLO for xBj.

Double-differential

Cross-sections for log10ksi in bins of Q2.
Ratios of data over NLO for log10ksi in bins of Q2.

Here is a table of cross sections for HERA-1/HERA-2 combined (PDF).


More detailed checks

Trigger efficiency

The trigger efficiency of the combination DIS03 and DST bit12 was checked using events preselected without a trigger requirement and checking the fraction of selected events that were triggered. The trigger efficiency was found to be flat at 100% over the whole Q2 range, as can be seen here. The red line is for data, the dashed black line for the ARIADNE MC at detector level.

Electron calibration

A proper electron energy calibration was applied in order to compensate for the MC mismodellings and miscalibrations. This was motivated by the observed bad agreement between MC and data for the electron quantities pT, energy and E-pz. at the same time, good agreement between the DA quantities in MC and data was observed, so that it was assumed that the DA method would allow for a correction of the energy scale in the MC. In a second step, the true energy information in the MC was used to correct both MC and data to the true level. As a result, the energy spectra agree pretty well between data and MC after the correction. The correction was performed in bins of theta for 4 different phi regions. The following plots illustrate the procedure and the result of the corrections applied. In addition, Jürg provided a ROOT class for electron energy correction at high-Q2 (Q2 above 125 GeV2). Please use with care and provide feedback!

eta shape in LEPTO for HERA-II

We observe a funny behaviour i the eta prime distribution for LEPTO at HERA-II. in order to investigate this further, we prepared a few plots. more will come very soon. Overall conclusion: We note that We therefore conclude that LEPTO (HERA-2), compared to the other 3 models, has been generated differently, affecting the eta distributions, but not the other measured distributions. In order to not be affected in our measurement we treat the eta-prime distribution at HERA-2 different from the other cross sections: In general, we use ARIADNE to estimate the acceptance correction and use LEPTO (HERA-2) as a systematic cross-check. However, for eta prime we still use ARIADNE (HERA-2) for the correction, but we apply the systematic error derived at HERA-1 since we consider the error of the detector effects to be of about the same size at HERA-1 and HERA-2.

Hadronic energy scale calibration

The hadronic energy scale was calibrated in the MC files using specially selected events with sigle high-energy jets and employing the energy balance between jet and scattered electron. A few results of the procedure can be seen below. The correction reduces the scale uncertainty to about 1.5% (for jets between 10 and 12 GeV in the lab frame) and 1% (for jets of higher energy). For softer jets an uncertainty of 3% is assumed.

20 March 2007, TSS