FIZIKA B 17 (2008) 1, 131 - 142

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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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