FIZIKA B 17 (2008) 1, 131 - 142
 
DIFFRACTION AND VECTOR MESON PRODUCTION AT HERA
MIKHAIL KAPISHIN (for the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations)
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
e-mail address: kapishin@mail.desy.de
Received 23 October 2007; Accepted 20 February 2008
Online 20 June 2008
Results of new measurements of diffractive cross sections in deep-inelastic
scattering (DIS) and photo-production at HERA are presented. The cross sections
of dijet and open charm production are compared with next-to-leading order (NLO)
QCD predictions based on parton distribution functions obtained from diffractive
inclusive DIS data. A combined NLO QCD fit to the inclusive and dijet DIS data
is performed to determine diffractive quark singlet and gluon densities with a
better precision. Recent measurements of elastic vector meson production and
deeply virtual Compton scattering at HERA are also reviewed.
PACS numbers: 11.55.Hx, 13.60.Hb, 25.20.Lj
UDC 539.126
Keywords: hard diffraction, QCD collinear factorization, diffractive parton
distribution functions, diffractive dijet, diffractive charm, elastic vector
meson production, deeply virtual Compton scattering
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