Properties of hadronic final states in diffractive deep inelastic e p scattering at HERA.

The ZEUS collaboration Chekanov, S. ; Derrick, M. ; Krakauer, D. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 65 (2002) 052001, 2002.
Inspire Record 560352 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.46869

Characteristics of the hadronic final state of diffractive deep inelastic scattering events, ep -> eXp, were studied in the kinematic range 4 < M_X < 35 GeV, 4 < Q^2 < 150 GeV^2, 70 < W < 250 GeV and 0.0003 < x_pom < 0.03 with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 13.8 pb^{-1}. The events were tagged by identifying the diffractively scattered proton using the leading proton spectrometer. The properties of the hadronic final state, X, were studied in its center-of-mass frame using thrust, thrust angle, sphericity, energy flow, transverse energy flow and ``seagull'' distributions. As the invariant mass of the system increases, the final state becomes more collimated, more aligned and more asymmetric in the average transverse momentum with respect to the direction of the virtual photon. Comparisons of the properties of the hadronic final state with predictions from various Monte Carlo model generators suggest that the final state is dominated by qqg states at the parton level.

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Thrust distribution for a DIS hadronic final state mass between 11 and 17.8GeV.

Thrust distribution for a DIS hadronic final state mass between 17.8 and 27.7 GeV.

Sphericity distribution for a DIS hadronic final state mass between 11 and 17.8 GeV.

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