Measurement of the F2 structure function in deep inelastic scattering using 1994 data from the ZEUS detector at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration

Paper

Measurement of the F2 structure function in deep inelastic scattering using 1994 data from the ZEUS detector at HERA

Abstract

We present measurements of the structure function \Ft\ in

scattering at HERA in the range

. A new reconstruction method has allowed a significant improvement in the resolution of the kinematic variables and an extension of the kinematic region covered by the experiment. At

the range in

now spans

providing overlap with measurements from fixed target experiments. At values of

above 1000 GeV

the

range extends to 0.5. Systematic errors below 5\perc\ have been achieved for most of the kinematic region. The structure function rises as \x\ decreases; the rise becomes more pronounced as \qsd\ increases. The behaviour of the structure function data is well described by next-to-leading order perturbative QCD as implemented in the DGLAP evolution equations.