Long-Range Correlations in Deep-Inelastic Scattering

Abstract

Multiplicity correlations between the current and target regions of the Breit frame in deep-inelastic scattering processes are studied. It is shown that the correlations are sensitive to the first-order perturbative QCD effects and can be used to extract the behavior of the boson-gluon fusion rates as a function of the Bjorken variable. The behavior of the correlations is derived analytically and analyzed using a Monte Carlo simulation.

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures, preprint ANL-HEP-PR-98-46 (accepted by J. Phys. G)