QCD analysis of diffractive and leading-proton DIS structure functions in the framework of fracture functions

1998/04/06 by D. de Florian, Daniel de Florian, R. Sassot · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.58.054003

published as Phys.Rev. D58 (1998) 054003 · 25 pages, 9 figures included

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Abstract

We present a combined QCD analysis of recent data produced by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations on the diffractive and leading-proton deep inelastic positron-proton scattering structure functions F₂^D(3) and F₂^LP(3), respectively. It is shown that the QCD framework for semi-inclusive processes, based on fracture functions, allows a unified treatment of both diffractive and leading-proton processes, and offers a precise perturbative QCD description for them, alternative to those that rely on model-dependent assumptions, such as Regge factorization, or other nonperturbative approaches.

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