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The relevant processes are classified into 3 categories using the invariant mass of the hadronic system(tex2html_wrap_inline1098),
 equation137
where tex2html_wrap_inline1100 and tex2html_wrap_inline1102 are the 4-momenta of the incoming tex2html_wrap_inline1104 and the proton after ISR, respectively. tex2html_wrap_inline1106 and tex2html_wrap_inline1108 are those of the scattered tex2html_wrap_inline1104 and the produced lepton before FSR, respectively. The 3 categories are

where tex2html_wrap_inline1118 and tex2html_wrap_inline1120 are the masses of the proton and the neutral pion, respectively. The default value for tex2html_wrap_inline1122 is set to 5GeV.

For the elastic process, the diagrams in Fig.1 are calculated. The elastic proton vertex is described using a dipole form factor. The general form of the proton-proton-photon (tex2html_wrap_inline1124) vertex (tex2html_wrap_inline1126) where protons are on-shell can be written as
 equation174
where tex2html_wrap_inline1128 indicates the electric charge of the proton, q means the 4-momentum transfer (tex2html_wrap_inline1132), tex2html_wrap_inline1134 and tex2html_wrap_inline1136 are two independent form factors, tex2html_wrap_inline1138 is the anomalous magnetic moment of the proton and tex2html_wrap_inline1118 is the mass of the proton (see, for example, [8].). The electric and magnetic form factors (tex2html_wrap_inline1142 and tex2html_wrap_inline1144 respectively) are defined as follows,
 equation186
Using the Gordon decomposition and the scaling law,
 equation199
the following formula which is used in this program is obtained,
 equation202
where tex2html_wrap_inline1146 and tex2html_wrap_inline1148 indicates the Bohr magneton. tex2html_wrap_inline1142 is calculated according to the dipole fit,
 equation217

The only difference between the elastic and the quasi-elastic processes is the treatment of the proton vertex and the final state hadronic system. The quasi-elastic proton vertex can be described using the hadron tensor in the following form assuming parity and current conservation (for example, see [8]),
 equation224
where tex2html_wrap_inline1152. tex2html_wrap_inline1154 and tex2html_wrap_inline1156 are the electromagnetic proton structure functions. To obtain the cross-section formula, the hadron tensor is contracted with the lepton tensor tex2html_wrap_inline1158 which is calculated using amplitudes generated by GRACE,
 equation247
In this version, the structure functions in EPVEC are used for tex2html_wrap_inline1160 and tex2html_wrap_inline1162. The functions were parameterized fitting the experimental data [9] in the following kinematic region,
equation254
where tex2html_wrap_inline1164. The exclusive hadronic system is simulated in the event generation step with the method used in the generator EPSOFT [10] for proton dissociative processes.

For the DIS process, the Quark-Parton Model (QPM) is used, and the diagrams in Fig.2 are calculated. The PDFLIB [11] is linked to get parton densities. The simulation of the proton remnant and the hadronization are performed by PYTHIA. It should be noted that the lowest order calculation in this process is valid only in the region,
equation266
where tex2html_wrap_inline1170 is the 4-momentum of the incoming quark. The value of u corresponds to the virtuality of the u-channel quark in the diagram in Fig.2-(b). When it is around or smaller than 25 GeVtex2html_wrap_inline1176, large QCD corrections are needed, so that the lowest order calculation is not correct as explained in [4].

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Tetsuo Abe
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