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Tests of QCD factorisation in the diffractive production of dijets in deep-inelastic scattering and photoproduction at HERA

  • A. Aktas*
  • , V. Andreev
  • , T. Anthonis
  • , B. Antunovic
  • , S. Aplin
  • , A. Asmone
  • , A. Astvatsatourov
  • , A. Babaev
  • , S. Backovic
  • , A. Baghdasaryan
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , S. Baudrand
  • , M. Beckingham
  • , K. Begzsuren
  • , O. Behnke
  • , O. Behrendt
  • , A. Belousov
  • , N. Berger
  • J. C. Bizot, M. O. Boenig, V. Boudry, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, J. Bracinik, G. Brandt, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, D. Bruncko, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, K. B. Cantun Avila, F. Cassol-Brunner, K. Cerny, V. Cerny, V. Chekelian, A. Cholewa, J. G. Contreras, J. A. Coughlan, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, K. Daum, Y. De Boer, B. Delcourt, M. Del Degan, A. De Roeck, E. A. De Wolf, C. Diaconu, V. Dodonov, A. Dubak, G. Eckerlin, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, A. Eliseev, E. Elsen, S. Essenov, A. Falkewicz, P. J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Feltesse, J. Ferencei, L. Finke, M. Fleischer, G. Flucke, A. Fomenko, G. Franke, T. Frisson, E. Gabathuler, E. Garutti, J. Gayler, S. Ghazaryan, S. Ginzburgskaya, A. Glazov, I. Glushkov, L. Goerlich, M. Goettlich, N. Gogitidze, S. Gorbounov, M. Gouzevitch, C. Grab, T. Greenshaw, M. Gregori, B. R. Grell, G. Grindhammer, S. Habib, D. Haidt, M. Hansson, G. Heinzelmann, C. Helebrant, R. C.W. Henderson, H. Henschel, G. Herrera, M. Hildebrandt, K. H. Hiller, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, A. Hovhannisyan, T. Hreus, S. Hussain, M. Jacquet, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, A. W. Jung, H. Jung, M. Kapichine, J. Katzy, I. R. Kenyon, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, T. Klimkovich, T. Kluge, G. Knies, A. Knutsson, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, M. Kraemer, K. Krastev, J. Kretzschmar, A. Kropivnitskaya, K. Krüger, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, G. Laštovička-Medin, P. Laycock, A. Lebedev, G. Leibenguth, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, L. Lindfeld, K. Lipka, A. Liptaj, B. List, J. List, N. Loktionova, R. Lopez-Fernandez, V. Lubimov, A. I. Lucaci-Timoce, H. Lueders, L. Lytkin, A. Makankine, E. Malinovski, P. Marage, L. Marti, M. Martisikova, H. U. Martyn, S. J. Maxfield, A. Mehta, K. Meier, A. B. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, V. Michels, S. Mikocki, I. Milcewicz-Mika, D. Mladenov, A. Mohamed, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, J. V. Morris, M. U. Mozer, K. Müller, P. Murín, K. Nankov, B. Naroska, T. Naumann, P. R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, A. Nikiforov, G. Nowak, K. Nowak, M. Nozicka, R. Oganezov, B. Olivier, J. E. Olsson, S. Osman, D. Ozerov, V. Palichik, I. Panagoulias, M. Pandurovic, T. Papadopoulou, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, H. Peng, E. Perez, D. Perez-Astudillo, A. Perieanu, A. Petrukhin, I. Picuric, S. Piec, D. Pitzl, R. Plačakyte, B. Povh, P. Prideaux, A. J. Rahmat, N. Raicevic, P. Reimer, A. Rimmer, C. Risler, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, B. Roland, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, Z. Rurikova, S. Rusakov, F. Salvaire, D. P.C. Sankey, M. Sauter, E. Sauvan, S. Schätzel, S. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, C. Schmitz, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, F. Sefkow, R. N. Shaw-West, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, T. Sloan, I. Smiljanic, P. Smirnov, Y. Soloviev, D. South, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, M. Steder, B. Stella, J. Stiewe, A. Stoilov, U. Straumann, D. Sunar, T. Sykora, V. Tchoulakov, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, T. Toll, F. Tomasz, D. Traynor, T. N. Trinh, P. Truöl, I. Tsakov, G. Tsipolitis, I. Tsurin, J. Turnau, E. Tzamariudaki, K. Urban, A. Usik, D. Utkin, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. Van Mechelen, A. Vargas Trevino, Y. Vazdik, S. Vinokurova, V. Volchinski, K. Wacker, G. Weber, R. Weber, D. Wegener, C. Werner, M. Wessels, C. Wissing, R. Wolf, E. Wünsch, S. Xella, W. Yan, V. Yeganov, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokin, Y. C. Zhu, J. Zimmermann, T. Zimmermann, H. Zohrabyan, F. Zomer
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  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • Inter-University Institute for High Energies
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Roma Tre University
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • University of Montenegro
  • A. Alikhanian Yerevan Institute of Physics
  • Universités Paris VI
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Mongolian Academy of Sciences
  • Heidelberg University 
  • TU Dortmund University
  • ETH Zurich—Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA)
  • Ecole Polytechnique of Paris
  • University of Belgrade
  • Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • University of Hamburg
  • Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
  • CNRS/IN2P3-Université Mediterranee
  • Charles University
  • Comenius University
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • CEA Saclay
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Wuppertal
  • CERN
  • Paul Scherrer Institute
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Birmingham
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Lund University
  • Lancaster University
  • Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Zurich
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

Measurements are presented of differential dijet cross sections in diffractive photoproduction (Q2<0.01 GeV2) and deep-inelastic scattering processes (DIS, 4<Q2<80 GeV 2). The event topology is given by ep→eXY, in which the system X, containing at least two jets, is separated from a leading low-mass baryonic system Y by a large rapidity gap. The dijet cross sections are compared with NLO QCD predictions based on diffractive parton densities previously obtained from a QCD analysis of inclusive diffractive DIS cross sections by H1. In DIS, the dijet data are well described, supporting the validity of QCD factorisation. The diffractive DIS dijet data are more sensitive to the diffractive gluon density at high fractional parton momentum than the measurements of inclusive diffractive DIS. In photoproduction, the predicted dijet cross section has to be multiplied by a factor of approximately 0.5 for both direct and resolved photon interactions to describe the measurements. The ratio of measured dijet cross section to NLO prediction in photoproduction is a factor 0.5±0.1 smaller than the same ratio in DIS. This suppression is the first clear observation of QCD hard scattering factorisation breaking at HERA. The measurements are also compared to the two soft colour neutralisation models SCI and GAL. The SCI model describes diffractive dijet production in DIS but not in photoproduction. The GAL model fails in both kinematic regions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)549-568
Number of pages20
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume51
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2007
Externally publishedYes

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