Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1849253 Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements 2009 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

I compare the latest H1 and ZEUS data on diffractive dijet photoproduction with next-to-leading order QCD predictions in order to see whether a rapidity gap survival probability of less than one is supported by the data. I find evidence for this hypothesis when assuming global factorization breaking for both the direct and resolved photon contributions, in which case the suppression factor would have to be strongly -dependent, and when assuming factorization breaking for the resolved or in addition the related direct initial-state singular contribution only, where it would be independent of .

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