A pr 2 00 6 DESY – 06 – 042 13 th March 2008 Event shapes in deep inelastic scattering at HERA ZEUS

Mean values and differential distributions of event-shape variables have been studied in neutral current deep inelastic scattering using an integrated luminosity of 82.2 pb collected with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The kinematic range was 80 < Q < 20 480GeV and 0.0024 < x < 0.6, where Q is the virtuality of the exchanged boson and x is the Bjorken variable. The data are compared with a model based on a combination of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations with next-to-leading-logarithm corrections and the Dokshitzer-Webber nonperturbative power corrections. The power-correction method provides a reasonable description of the data for all event-shape variables studied. Nevertheless, the lack of consistency of the determination of αs and of the non-perturbative parameter of the model, α0, suggests the importance of higher-order processes that are not yet included in the model. The ZEUS Collaboration S. Chekanov, M. Derrick, S. Magill, S. Miglioranzi, B. Musgrave, D. Nicholass, J. Repond, R. Yoshida Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4815, USA n M.C.K. Mattingly Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-0380, USA N. Pavel , A.G. Yagües Molina Institut für Physik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany S. Antonelli, P. Antonioli, G. Bari, M. Basile, L. Bellagamba, M. Bindi, D. Boscherini, A. Bruni, G. Bruni, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, A. Contin, M. Corradi, S. De Pasquale, G. Iacobucci, A. Margotti, R. Nania, A. Polini, L. Rinaldi, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi University and INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy e G. Aghuzumtsyan, D. Bartsch, I. Brock, S. Goers, H. Hartmann, E. Hilger, H.-P. Jakob, M. Jüngst, O.M. Kind, E. Paul, J. Rautenberg, R. Renner, U. Samson, V. Schönberg, M. Wang, M. Wlasenko Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany b N.H. Brook, G.P. Heath, J.D. Morris, T. Namsoo H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom m M. Capua, S. Fazio, A. Mastroberardino, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, E. Tassi Calabria University, Physics Department and INFN, Cosenza, Italy e J.Y. Kim, K.J. Ma Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea g Z.A. Ibrahim, B. Kamaluddin, W.A.T. Wan Abdullah Jabatan Fizik, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia r Y. Ning, Z. Ren, F. Sciulli Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, Irvington on Hudson, New York 10027 o J. Chwastowski, A. Eskreys, J. Figiel, A. Galas, M. Gil, K. Olkiewicz, P. Stopa, L. Zawiejski The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland i L. Adamczyk, T. Bo ld, I. Grabowska-Bo ld, D. Kisielewska, J. Lukasik, M. Przybycień, L. Suszycki, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland p