DOI 10.1007/s100529801022
An analysis of diffraction in deep-inelastic scattering
J. Bartels1 - J. Ellis2 - H. Kowalski3 - M. Wüsthoff4
1 II. Institut für Theoretische Physik,
Universität Hamburg, Germany
2 Theory Division, CERN, Switzerland
3 Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Germany
4 University of Durham, Department of Physics,
Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Received: 30 June 1998 / Revised version: 3 September 1998 / Pulished online: 3 December 1998
Abstract
We propose a simple parametrization for the deep-inelastic diffractive
cross section. It contains the contribution of 
production to
both the longitudinal and the transverse diffractive structure functions, and
of the production of 
final states from transverse photons.
We start from the hard region and perform a suitable extrapolation into the
soft region. We test our model on the 1994 ZEUS and H1 data, and confront
it with the H1 conjecture of a singular gluon distribution.
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