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Charged particle multiplicities in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

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Zeitschrift für Physik C: Particles and Fields

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Using the H1 detector at HERA, charged particle multiplicity distributions in deep inelastice + p scattering have been measured over a large kinematical region. The evolution withW andQ 2 of the multiplicity distribution and of the multiplicity moments in pseudorapidity domains of varying size is studied in the current fragmentation region of the hadronic centre-of-mass frame. The results are compared with data from fixed target lepton-nucleon interactions,e + e annihilations and hadron-hadron collisions as well as with expectations from QCD based parton models. Fits to the Negative Binomial and Lognormal distributions are presented.

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H1 Collaboration., Aid, S., Anderson, M. et al. Charged particle multiplicities in deep inelastic scattering at HERA. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 72, 573–592 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002880050280

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