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Charged Particle Multiplicity in Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The recent data from H1 Collaboration on hadron multiplicity in diffractive DIS has been studied in the framework of perturbative QCD as a function of invariant diffractive mass. The formulas obtained explain the observed excess of particle production in diffractive DIS relative to that in DIS and e+ee^+e^- annihilation. It is shown that the results are sensitive to the quark--gluon structure of the Pomeron. Namely, the data say in favour of a super-hard gluon distribution at the initial scale.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9904294,
  title  = {Charged Particle Multiplicity in Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering},
  author = {R. J. M. Covolan and A. V. Kisselev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9904294},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures; to be published in Phys. Rev. D