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Photon Contribution to the ``Super-hard" Pomeron

Hung Jung Lu, Joseph Milana

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9512240

Abstract

It is shown that direct photons provide a leading twist mechanism for diffractive jet production in which the jets carry away all of the momentum lost by the proton. Two-photon processes are thus expected to asymptotically dominate "super-hard" pomeron events in ep collisions. We report the expected rates from these events for the recent ZEUS and H1 data cuts. We also estimate the direct photon contribution to the "super-hard" pomeron events observed by the CERN UA8 group for p p collisions.

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