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Diffractive parton distributions from the analysis with higher twist

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-03-25 v3

Abstract

Diffractive parton distributions of the proton are determined from fits to diffractive data from HERA. In addition to the twist--2 contribution, the twist--4 contribution from longitudinally polarised virtual photons is considered, which is important in the region of small diffractive masses. A new prediction for the longitudinal diffractive structure function is presented which differs significantly from that obtained in the pure twist--2 analyses.

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@article{arxiv.0704.1608,
  title  = {Diffractive parton distributions from the analysis with higher twist},
  author = {K. Golec-Biernat and A. Luszczak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1608},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

24 pages, 12 figures, significant improvements, version to be published in Phys. Rev. D