QCD analysis of diffractive and leading-proton DIS structure functions in the framework of fracture functions
QCD analysis of diffractive and leading-proton DIS structure functions in the framework of fracture functions
We present a combined QCD analysis of recent data produced by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations on the diffractive and leading-proton deep inelastic positron-proton scattering structure functions ${F}_{2}^{D(3)}$ and ${F}_{2}^{\mathrm{LP}(3)},$ respectively. It is shown that the QCD framework for semi-inclusive processes, based on fracture functions, allows a unified treatment of …