Studies of DVCS and photoproduction of photons at high t with the H1 Detector

TL;DR

This paper reports on measurements of diffractive photon-proton scattering and DVCS at high energies using the H1 detector, providing new data for testing QCD predictions in different kinematic regimes.

Contribution

It presents the first measurement of diffractive photon scattering at large transverse momentum and extends DVCS measurements to higher virtualities and energies, comparing results with QCD models.

Findings

Differential cross sections measured in high t and extended W ranges.

Comparison with BFKL, DGLAP, and Colour Dipole models shows varying degrees of agreement.

First data at large photon transverse momentum in photoproduction regime.

Abstract

The diffractive scattering of photon off proton $\gamma^{(*)} p \to \gamma Y$ (where $Y$ denotes the proton dissociative system or the elastically scattered proton) is measured in two different kinematic regimes at high energy with the H1 detector at HERA. i) the process is studied for the first time at large transverse photon momentum $p_t^{\gamma} > 2$ GeV in photoproduction regime ($Q^2 < 0.01$ GeV$^2$)and photon-proton c.m.s. energy $175 < W < 247 {\rm GeV}$. The cross section is measured differentially in $t$ and in $\xpom$. The measurement is compared to a LL BFKL prediction of QCD. ii) in electroproduction, the Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) $\gamma^* p \to \gamma p$ cross section has been measured more precisely and in an extended kinematic domain: at photon virtualities $4<Q^2<80$ GeV$^2$ and $30<W<140$ GeV. The measurement is compared to NLO QCD calculations using the DGLAP approximation and to Colour Dipole model predictions.