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

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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 i...

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Authors: Chekanov, S; Krakauer, D; Magill, S; Musgrave, B; Pellegrino, A

• Journal: European Physical Journal C
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 169-187
• Publication date: 2002-09-01
• ISSN: 1434-6044
• Language: English