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Diffractive production of dijets at HERA

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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We investigate the production of a quark-antiquark pair in diffractive photon-proton scattering, approximating soft pomeron exchange by the exchange of two nonperturbative gluons. In deep inelastic scattering at HERA, events with two jets and the scattered proton in the final state are predicted to be observable, with an important contribution from charm production. For photoproduction of light quark jets with high transverse momentum we find that both exchanged gluons must have a large invariant mass, so that the cross section is very small, whereas for charm quarks it is quite appreciable. From our calculation we also extract the quark structure function of the pomeron for the scaling variablez no too close to 0 or 1, finding a strong flavour dependence and a behaviour somewhat harder thanz(1−z) for light quarks.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, CB3 9EW, Cambridge, England

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Diehl, M. Diffractive production of dijets at HERA. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 66, 181–193 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01496592

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