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QCD Analysis of Diffractive and Leading-Proton DIS Structure Functions in the Framework of Fracture Functions

D. de Florian, R. Sassot

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9804240

Abstract

We present a combined QCD analysis of recent data produced by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations on the diffractive and leading-proton deep inelastic positron--proton scattering structure functions, F2D(3) and F2LP(3), respectively. It is shown that the QCD framework for semi-inclusive processes, based on fracture functions, allows a unified treatment of both diffractive and leading-proton processes, and offers a precise perturbative QCD description for them, alternative to those that rely on model-dependent assumptions, such as Regge factorization, or other non-perturbative approaches

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