Diffractive production of isolated photons at HERA

TL;DR

This paper reports measurements of isolated photon production in diffractive events at HERA, comparing experimental data with Monte Carlo predictions to enhance understanding of photon interactions and diffraction processes.

Contribution

First measurement of diffractive isolated photon production at HERA, providing data for testing QCD models of diffraction and photon interactions.

Findings

Measured cross sections in specified kinematic ranges.

Compared data with RAPGAP Monte Carlo predictions.

Analyzed energy fractions of photon and Pomeron in events.

Abstract

The ZEUS detector at HERA has been used to measure the photoproduction of isolated photons in diffractive events. Cross sections are evaluated in the photon transverse-energy and pseudorapidity ranges 5 < E_T^gamma < 15 Gev and -0.7 < eta^gamma < 0.9, inclusively and with a jet with transverse-energy an pseudorapidity in the ranges 4 < ETjet < 35 GeV and -1.5 < etajet < 1.8, for an integrated luminosity of 374 pb^{-1}. Further kinematic variables studied include the fractions of the incoming photon energy and of the colourless exchange ("Pomeron") energy that are imparted to a photon-jet final state. Comparison is made to predictions from the RAPGAP Monte Carlo simulation.