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Photoproduction of events with rapidity gaps between jets at HERA

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2012-08-03 v3

Abstract

The photoproduction of dijet events, where the two jets with the highest transverse energy are separated by a large gap in pseudorapidity, have been studied with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 39 pb1^{-1}. Rapidity-gap events are defined in terms of the energy flow between the jets, such that the total summed transverse energy in this region is less than some value ETCUTE_{\rm T}^{\rm CUT}. The data show a clear excess over the predictions of standard photoproduction models. This is interpreted as evidence for a strongly interacting exchange of a color-singlet object. Monte Carlo models which include such a color-singlet exchange are able to describe the data.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0612008,
  title  = {Photoproduction of events with rapidity gaps between jets at HERA},
  author = {ZEUS Collaboration and S. Chekanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0612008},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

28 pages, 13 figures, accepted by EPJ C