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Unified description of diffractive deep inelastic scattering with saturation

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Abstract

We propose a new description of inclusive diffraction in deep inelastic scattering. The diffractive structure functions are expressed in the dipole picture and contain heavy-quark contributions. The dipole scattering amplitude, a saturation model fitted on inclusive deep inelastic scattering data, features a saturation scale Qs(x) larger than 1 GeV for x=10-5. The qq̄g contribution to the diffractive final state is modeled in such a way that both the large-Q2 and small-β limits are implemented. In the regime xP<0.01 in which saturation is expected to be relevant, we obtain a parameter-free description of the HERA data with χ2/points=1.2.

Original languageEnglish
Article number094017
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume76
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Nov 2007
Externally publishedYes

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