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Charged Particle Multiplicity in Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering

R. J. M. Covolan, A. V. Kisselev

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9904294

Abstract

The recent data from H1 Collaboration on hadron multiplicity in diffractive DIS has been studied in the framework of perturbative QCD as a function of invariant diffractive mass. The formulas obtained explain the observed excess of particle production in diffractive DIS relative to that in DIS and e+e- annihilation. It is shown that the results are sensitive to the quark--gluon structure of the Pomeron. Namely, the data say in favour of a super-hard gluon distribution at the initial scale.

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