Three-jet production in diffractive deep inelastic scattering at HERA

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S. Chekanov et al., Three-jet production in diffractive deep inelastic scattering at HERA, PHYS LETT B, 516(3-4), 2001, pp. 273-292

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Three-jet production in the reaction ep --> eXp has been studied with the Z EUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 42.74 pb(-1).The dat a were measured in the kinematic region 5 < Q(2) < 100 GeV2, 200 < W < 250 GeV and 23 < M-X < 40 GeV. The diffractive signal was selected by requiring a large rapidity gap in the outgoing proton direction. Jets were reconstru cted in the centre-of-mass system of X using the exclusive k(T)-algorithm. A sample of three-jet events in diffraction has been identified. Differenti al cross sections were measured as a function of the jet pseudorapidity and jet transverse momentum with respect to the virtual photon-pomeron axis. T he jets going in the pomeron direction are broader than those going in the virtual-photon direction. This is consistent with models predicting that gl uons a-re predominantly produced in the pomeron direction and quarks in the virtual-photon direction. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserv ed.