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Measurement of the Q2 and energy dependence of diffractive interactions at HERA: The ZEUS collaboration

  • S. Chekanov
  • , D. Krakauer
  • , S. Magill
  • , B. Musgrave
  • , A. Pellegrino
  • , J. Repond
  • , R. Yoshida
  • , M. C.K. Mattingly
  • , P. Antonioli
  • , G. Anzivino
  • , G. Bari
  • , M. Basile
  • , L. Bellagamba
  • , D. Boscherini
  • , A. Bruni
  • , G. Bruni
  • , G. Cara Romeo
  • , M. Chiarini
  • , L. Cifarelli
  • , F. Cindolo
  • A. Contin, M. Corradi, S. De Pasquale, P. Giusti, G. Iacobucci, G. Levi, A. Margotti, T. Massam, R. Nania, C. Nemoz, F. Palmonari, A. Pesci, G. Sartorelli, Y. Zamora Garcia, A. Zichichi, G. Aghuzumtsyan, D. Bartsch, I. Brock, J. Crittenden, S. Goers, H. Hartmann, E. Hilger, P. Irrgang, H. P. Jakob, A. Kappes, U. F. Katz, R. Kerger, O. Kind, E. Paul, J. Rautenberg, R. Renner, H. Schnurbusch, A. Stifutkin, J. Tandler, K. C. Voss, A. Weber, D. S. Bailey, N. H. Brook, J. E. Cole, B. Foster, G. P. Heath, H. F. Heath, S. Robins, E. Rodrigues, J. Scott, R. J. Tapper, M. Wing, R. Ayad, M. Capua, L. Iannotti, A. Mastroberardino, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, J. Y. Kim, Y. K. Kim, J. H. Lee, I. T. Lim, M. Y. Pac, A. Caldwell, M. Helbich, X. Liu, B. Mellado, S. Paganis, W. B. Schmidke, F. Sciulli, J. Chwastowski, A. Eskreys, J. Figiel, K. Olkiewicz, M. B. Przybycień, P. Stopa, L. Zawiejski, B. Bednarek, I. Grabowska-Bold, K. Jeleń, D. Kisielewska, A. M. Kowal, M. Kowal, T. Kowalski, B. Mindur, E. Rulikowska-Zarȩbska, L. Suszycki, D. Szuba, J. Szuba, A. Kotański, W. Słomiński, L. A.T. Bauerdick, U. Behrens, K. Borras, V. Chiochia, D. Dannheim, M. Derrick, G. Drews, J. Fourletova, A. Fox-Murphy, U. Fricke, A. Geiser, F. Goebel, P. Göttlicher, O. Gutsche, T. Haas, W. Hain, G. F. Hartner, S. Hillert, U. Kötz, H. Kowalski, H. Labes, D. Lelas, B. Löhr, R. Mankel, M. Martínez, M. Moritz, D. Notz, I. A. Pellmann, M. C. Petrucci, A. Polini, U. Schneekloth, F. Selonke, B. Surrow, H. Wessoleck, R. Wichmann, G. Wolf, C. Youngman, W. Zeuner, A. Lopez-Duran Viani, A. Meyer, S. Schlenstedt, G. Barbagli, E. Gallo, C. Genta, P. G. Pelfer, A. Bamberger, A. Benen, N. Coppola, P. Markun, H. Raach, S. Wölfle, M. Bell, P. J. Bussey, A. T. Doyle, C. Glasman, S. Hanlon, S. W. Lee, A. Lupi, G. J. McCance, D. H. Saxon, I. O. Skillicorn, I. Gialas, B. Bodmann, T. Carli, U. Holm, K. Klimek, E. Lohrmann, M. Milite, H. Salehi, S. Stonjek, K. Wick, A. Ziegler, Ar Ziegler, C. Collins-Tooth, C. Foudas, R. Gonçalo, K. R. Long, F. Metlica, D. B. Miller, A. D. Tapper, R. Walker, P. Cloth, D. Filges, M. Kuze, K. Nagano, K. Tokushuku, S. Yamada, Y. Yamazaki, A. N. Barakbaev, E. G. Boos, N. S. Pokrovskiy, B. O. Zhautykov, H. Lim, D. Son, F. Barreiro, O. González, L. Labarga, J. del Peso, I. Redondo, J. Terrón, M. Vázquez, M. Barbi, A. Bertolin, F. Corriveau, A. Ochs, S. Padhi, D. G. Stairs, M. St-Laurent, T. Tsurugai, A. Antonov, V. Bashkirov, P. Danilov, B. A. Dolgoshein, D. Gladkov, V. Sosnovtsev, S. Suchkov, R. K. Dementiev, P. F. Ermolov, Y. A. Golubkov, I. I. Katkov, L. A. Khein, I. A. Korzhavina, V. A. Kuzmin, B. B. Levchenko, O. Y. Lukina, A. S. Proskuryakov, L. M. Shcheglova, N. N. Vlasov, S. A. Zotkin, C. Bokel, J. Engelen, S. Grijpink, E. Koffeman, P. Kooijman, E. Maddox, S. Schagen, E. Tassi, H. Tiecke, N. Tuning, J. J. Velthuis, L. Wiggers, E. de Wolf, N. Brümmer, B. Bylsma, L. S. Durkin, J. Gilmore, C. M. Ginsburg, C. L. Kim, T. Y. Ling, S. Boogert, A. M. Cooper-Sarkar, R. C.E. Devenish, J. Ferrando, G. Grzelak, T. Matsushita, M. Rigby, O. Ruske, M. R. Sutton, R. Walczak, R. Brugnera, R. Carlin, F. Dal Corso, S. Dusini, A. Garfagnini, S. Limentani, A. Longhin, A. Parenti, M. Posocco, L. Stanco, M. Turcato, L. Adamczyk, E. A. Heaphy, B. Y. Oh, P. R.B. Saull, J. J. Whitmore, Y. Iga, G. D'Agostini, G. Marini, A. Nigro, C. Cormack, J. C. Hart, N. A. McCubbin, E. Barberis, C. Heusch, W. Lockman, J. T. Rahn, H. F.W. Sadrozinski, A. Seiden, D. C. Williams, I. H. Park, N. Pavel, H. Abramowicz, S. Dagan, A. Gabareen, S. Kananov, A. Kreisel, A. Levy, T. Abe, T. Fusayasu, T. Kohno, K. Umemori, T. Yamashita, R. Hamatsu, T. Hirose, M. Inuzuka, S. Kitamura, K. Matsuzawa, T. Nishimura, M. Arneodo, N. Cartiglia, R. Cirio, M. Costa, M. I. Ferrero, L. Lamberti, S. Maselli, V. Monaco, C. Peroni, M. Ruspa, R. Sacchi, A. Solano, A. Staiano, R. Galea, T. Koop, G. M. Levman, J. F. Martin, A. Mirea, A. Sabetfakhri, J. M. Butterworth, C. Gwenlan, R. Hall-Wilton, T. W. Jones, J. B. Lane, M. S. Lightwood, J. H. Loizides, B. J. West, J. Ciborowski, R. Ciesielski, R. J. Nowak, J. M. Pawlak, B. Smalska, J. Sztuk, T. Tymieniecka, A. Ukleja, J. Ukleja, J. A. Zakrzewski, A. F. Zarnecki, M. Adamus, P. Plucinski, Y. Eisenberg, L. K. Gladilin, D. Hochman, U. Karshon, D. Kçira, S. Lammers, L. Li, D. D. Reeder, A. A. Savin, W. H. Smith, A. Deshpande, S. Dhawan, V. W. Hughes, P. B. Straub, S. Bhadra, C. D. Catterall, S. Fourletov, S. Menary, M. Soares, J. Standage
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Andrews University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Perugia
  • European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
  • Inter American Development Bank
  • University of Bonn
  • Cornell University
  • Ministère de la Culture
  • University of Bristol
  • PPARC
  • University of Calabria
  • Temple University
  • Consoft Sistemi
  • Chonnam National University
  • Dongshin University
  • Columbia University
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Northwestern University
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Aarhus University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Mobilcom AG
  • University of Florence
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of the Aegean
  • University of Hamburg
  • Imperial College London
  • Jülich Research Centre
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • CNRS-IN2P3
  • McGill University
  • Meiji Gakuin University
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Loma Linda University Health
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Oxford
  • IBM
  • University of Padua
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Polytechnic University Japan
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Seoul National University
  • University of Siegen
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • University of Turin
  • University of Eastern Piedmont
  • University of Toronto
  • University College London
  • University of Warsaw
  • University of Lodz
  • Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Yale University
  • York University Toronto

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)169-187
Number of pages19
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume25
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2002

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