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Title
Hard scattering factorization and light cone Hamiltonian approach to diffractive processes
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Abstract
We describe diffractive deep inelastic scattering in terms of diffractive parton distributions. We investigate these distributions in a Hamiltonian formulation that emphasizes the space-time picture of diffraction scattering. For hadronic systems with small transverse size, diffraction occurs predominantly at short distances and the diffractive parton distributions can be studied by perturbative methods. For realistic, large-size systems we discuss the possibility that diffractive parton distributions are controlled essentially by semihard physics at a scale of non-perturbative origin of the order of a GeV, We find that this possibility accounts for two important qualitative aspects of the diffractive data from HERA: the flat behavior in beta and the delay in the fall-off with Q(2), (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V, All rights reserved.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Nuclear physics : B / Institute of Physics [London] - Amsterdam, 1967, currens
Publication
Amsterdam : North-Holland , 1999
ISSN
0550-3213 [print]
1873-1562 [online]
DOI
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00568-4
Volume/pages
563 :1-2 (1999) , p. 153-199
ISI
000084393500009
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