Possible future HERA analyses

Geiser, Achim

Contribution to a conference proceedings/Internal Report

PUBDB-2016-00631

Possible future HERA analyses

Geiser, A. (Corresponding author)DESY*

2015

Workshop on Future Physics with HERA Data for Current and Planned Experiments, Hamburg, Germany, 11 Nov 2014 - 13 Nov 2014 14 pp. (2015)

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Report No.: DESY-15-241; arXiv:1512.03624

Abstract: A variety of possible future analyses of HERA data in the context of the HERA data preservation programme is collected, motivated, and commented. The focus is placed on possible future analyses of the existing $ep$ collider data and their physics scope. Comparisons to the original scope of the HERA programme are made, and cross references to topics also covered by other participants of the workshop are given. This includes topics on QCD, proton structure, diffraction, jets, hadronic final states, heavy flavours, electroweak physics, and the application of related theory and phenomenology topics like NNLO QCD calculations, low-x related models, nonperturbative QCD aspects, and electroweak radiative corrections. Synergies with other collider programmes are also addressed. In summary, the range of physics topics which can still be uniquely covered using the existing data is very broad and of considerable physics interest, often matching the interest of results from colliders currently in operation. Due to well-established data and MC sets, calibrations, and analysis procedures the manpower and expertise needed for a particular analysis is often very much smaller than that needed for an ongoing experiment. Since centrally funded manpower to carry out such analyses is not available any longer, this contribution not only targets experienced self-funded experimentalists, but also theorists and master-level students who might wish to carry out such an analysis.

Keyword(s): positron p: interaction ; electron p: interaction ; quantum chromodynamics: nonperturbative ; electroweak interaction: radiative correction ; final state: hadronic ; DESY HERA Stor ; data preservation ; heavy quark ; calibration ; diffraction ; structure ; small-x ; experimental results