Diffractive Structure Functions with H1

TL;DR

This paper reports precise measurements of diffractive structure functions in deep inelastic scattering at HERA, confirming QCD predictions and providing new data on the diffractive longitudinal structure function $F_L^D$.

Contribution

It presents new high-statistics measurements of diffractive cross sections and the longitudinal structure function $F_L^D$, extending the kinematic range and confirming QCD predictions.

Findings

Measured diffractive cross sections at different energies.

Extracted the diffractive longitudinal structure function $F_L^D$.

Results agree with NLO QCD predictions.

Abstract

H1 has measured the diffractive DIS cross section $ep \rightarrow eXY$ using data from both of the HERA data-taking periods. Using new measurements of the diffractive cross section at different centre-of-mass energies, the diffractive longitudinal structure function $F_L^D$ has been extracted. The results are in agreement with NLO QCD predictions based on fits to inclusive data. New high statistics measurements of the diffractive reduced cross section $\sigma_r^D$ have been made using two experimental methods covering the accessible kinematic range. This precise dataset agrees well with QCD-based predictions.