Diffractive Structure Function in the Dipole Picture
Published in Difflowx2022, 2023
Abstract: We calculate the contribution from the qqbarg component of a virtual photon state to the small-x diffractive cross section in deep inelastic scattering in the saturation regime. The obtained cross section is finite by itself and a part of the full next-to-leading order result. We perform the calculation in exact kinematics in the eikonal limit, and show that the previously known high virtuality Q2 and large invariant mass M_X2 results for the structure functions can be extracted. We furthermore discuss the steps required to obtain the full next-to-leading order result.
Recommended citation: G. Beuf, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi, Y. Mulian, H. Mäntysaari. (2023). "Diffractive Structure Function in the Dipole Picture" Acta Phys.Polon.Supp. 16 (2023) 5, 20.
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