Measurement of the Q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at HERA: The ZEUS collaboration
Diffractive dissociation of virtual photons, γ*p → Xp, has been studied in ep interactions with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The data cover photon virtualities 0.17 < Q2 < 0.70 GeV2 and 3 < Q2 < 80 GeV2 with 3 < MX < 38 GeV, where MX is the mass of the hadroni...
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| author | Chekanov, S Krakauer, D Magill, S Musgrave, B Pellegrino, A Repond, J Yoshida, R Mattingly, M Antonioli, P Anzivino, G Bari, G Basile, M Bellagamba, L Boscherini, D Bruni, A Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Chiarini, M Cifarelli, L Cindolo, F Contin, A Corradi, M De Pasquale, S Giusti, P Iacobucci, G |
| author_facet | Chekanov, S Krakauer, D Magill, S Musgrave, B Pellegrino, A Repond, J Yoshida, R Mattingly, M Antonioli, P Anzivino, G Bari, G Basile, M Bellagamba, L Boscherini, D Bruni, A Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Chiarini, M Cifarelli, L Cindolo, F Contin, A Corradi, M De Pasquale, S Giusti, P Iacobucci, G |
| author_sort | Chekanov, S |
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| description | Diffractive dissociation of virtual photons, γ*p → Xp, has been studied in ep interactions with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The data cover photon virtualities 0.17 < Q2 < 0.70 GeV2 and 3 < Q2 < 80 GeV2 with 3 < MX < 38 GeV, where MX is the mass of the hadronic final state. Diffractive events were selected by two methods: the first required the detection of the scattered proton in the ZEUS leading proton spectrometer (LPS); the second was based on the distribution of MX. The integrated luminosities of the low- and high-Q2 samples used in the LPS-based analysis are ≃ 0.9 pb-1 and ≃ 3.3 pb-1, respectively. The sample used for the MX-based analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of ≃ 6.2 pb-1. The dependence of the diffractive cross section on W, the virtual photon-proton centre-of-mass energy, and on Q2 is studied. In the low-Q2 range, the energy dependence is compatible with Regge theory and is used to determine the intercept of the Pomeron trajectory. The W dependence of the diffractive cross section exhibits no significant change from the low-Q2 to the high-Q2 region. In the low-Q2 range, little Q2 dependence is found, a significantly different behaviour from the rapidly falling cross section measured for Q2 > 3 GeV2. The ratio of the diffractive to the virtual photon-proton total cross section is studied as a function of W and Q2. Comparisons are made with a model based on perturbative QCD. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:36886ab6-1d4d-4ec6-aa24-4632f3bd96d62022-03-26T13:38:35ZMeasurement of the Q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at HERA: The ZEUS collaborationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:36886ab6-1d4d-4ec6-aa24-4632f3bd96d6EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2002Chekanov, SKrakauer, DMagill, SMusgrave, BPellegrino, ARepond, JYoshida, RMattingly, MAntonioli, PAnzivino, GBari, GBasile, MBellagamba, LBoscherini, DBruni, ABruni, GCara Romeo, GChiarini, MCifarelli, LCindolo, FContin, ACorradi, MDe Pasquale, SGiusti, PIacobucci, GDiffractive dissociation of virtual photons, γ*p → Xp, has been studied in ep interactions with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The data cover photon virtualities 0.17 < Q2 < 0.70 GeV2 and 3 < Q2 < 80 GeV2 with 3 < MX < 38 GeV, where MX is the mass of the hadronic final state. Diffractive events were selected by two methods: the first required the detection of the scattered proton in the ZEUS leading proton spectrometer (LPS); the second was based on the distribution of MX. The integrated luminosities of the low- and high-Q2 samples used in the LPS-based analysis are ≃ 0.9 pb-1 and ≃ 3.3 pb-1, respectively. The sample used for the MX-based analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of ≃ 6.2 pb-1. The dependence of the diffractive cross section on W, the virtual photon-proton centre-of-mass energy, and on Q2 is studied. In the low-Q2 range, the energy dependence is compatible with Regge theory and is used to determine the intercept of the Pomeron trajectory. The W dependence of the diffractive cross section exhibits no significant change from the low-Q2 to the high-Q2 region. In the low-Q2 range, little Q2 dependence is found, a significantly different behaviour from the rapidly falling cross section measured for Q2 > 3 GeV2. The ratio of the diffractive to the virtual photon-proton total cross section is studied as a function of W and Q2. Comparisons are made with a model based on perturbative QCD. |
| spellingShingle | Chekanov, S Krakauer, D Magill, S Musgrave, B Pellegrino, A Repond, J Yoshida, R Mattingly, M Antonioli, P Anzivino, G Bari, G Basile, M Bellagamba, L Boscherini, D Bruni, A Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Chiarini, M Cifarelli, L Cindolo, F Contin, A Corradi, M De Pasquale, S Giusti, P Iacobucci, G Measurement of the Q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at HERA: The ZEUS collaboration |
| title | Measurement of the Q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at HERA: The ZEUS collaboration |
| title_full | Measurement of the Q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at HERA: The ZEUS collaboration |
| title_fullStr | Measurement of the Q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at HERA: The ZEUS collaboration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement of the Q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at HERA: The ZEUS collaboration |
| title_short | Measurement of the Q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at HERA: The ZEUS collaboration |
| title_sort | measurement of the q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at hera the zeus collaboration |
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