Diffractive parton distributions and the saturation model.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 1 0 5 3 3 3 v 1 3 1 M a y 2 0 0 1 DIFFRACTIVE PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS AND THE SATURATION MODEL K. GOLEC–BIERNAT II Institute of Theoretical Physics, Hamburg University, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany and Institute of Nuclear Physics, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Krako?w, Poland M. WU?STHOFF Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom We construct diffractive parton distributions in the model of DIS diffraction in which the diffractive state is formed by the qq? and qq?g components. The interaction of such systems with the proton is described by the dipole cross section given by the saturation model. We find Regge factorization property with the measured at HERA depenedence on energy. The found parton distributions are evolved with the DGLAP evolution equations to make a comparison with the data. 1 Introduction Collinear factorization proved for diffractive DIS 1 allows to define diffractive quark and gluon distributions through the relation to the diffractive structure function, e.g. in the leading log(Q2) approximation F D(3) 2 = 2 ∑ q e2q β q D(β,Q2, xIP ), (1) where qD = q?D. This relation concerns only the leading twist description. The diffractive parton distributions (DPD) obey the DGALP evolution equations. In the Ingelman-Schlein approach to DIS diffraction Regge factorization is additionally assumed qD(β,Q2, xIP ) = f(xIP ) fq(β,Q 2), (2) where f(xIP ) is related to the soft pomeron flux 2,3. In an alternative ap- proach, the detailed description of diffractive processes is achieved by mod- elling the diffractive final state as well as its interaction with the proton start- ing from perturbative QCD 4. Such an analysis goes beyond the leading twist description and Regge factorization for the DPD is not assumed. The problem which is faced in this approach is the strong sensitivity to nonperturbative 1 l T l T k T q p l T l T k T q p Figure 1. The diffractive qq? and qq?g contributi