Measurement of the diffractive structure function in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

electron p: deep inelastic scattering structure function: pomeron structure functions; diffractive scattering; pomeron diffraction momentum dependence FOS: Physical sciences 296 GeV-cms 01 natural sciences High Energy Physics - Experiment LUND MONTE-CARLO; CENTRAL TRACKING DETECTOR; POMERON STRUCTURE; JET FRAGMENTATION; E+E-PHYSICS; ZEUS; VERSION; DISSOCIATION; CALORIMETER; SINGULARITY sum rule: momentum High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) deep inelastic scattering: electron p structure function: parametrization 0103 physical sciences info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530 pomeron: exchange scaling ZEUS rapidity: gap colliding beams: electron p DESY HERA Stor electron p: colliding beams exchange: pomeron dependence: momentum transfer experimental results
DOI: 10.1007/bf01565257 Publication Date: 2005-04-27T16:46:15Z
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36 pages, latex, 11 figures appended as uuencoded file<br/>This paper presents an analysis of the inclusive properties of diffractive deep inelastic scattering events produced in $ep$ interactions at HERA. The events are characterised by a rapidity gap between the outgoing proton system and the remaining hadronic system. Inclusive distributions are presented and compared with Monte Carlo models for diffractive processes. The data are consistent with models where the pomeron structure function has a hard and a soft contribution. The diffractive structure function is measured as a function of $\xpom$, the momentum fraction lost by the proton, of $��$, the momentum fraction of the struck quark with respect to $\xpom$, and of $Q^2$. The $\xpom$ dependence is consistent with the form \xpoma where $a~=~1.30~\pm~0.08~(stat)~^{+~0.08}_{-~0.14}~(sys)$ in all bins of $��$ and $Q^2$. In the measured $Q^2$ range, the diffractive structure function approximately scales with $Q^2$ at fixed $��$. In an Ingelman-Schlein type model, where commonly used pomeron flux factor normalisations are assumed, it is found that the quarks within the pomeron do not saturate the momentum sum rule.<br/>
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