S. Aid et al., ENERGY-FLOW IN THE HADRONIC FINAL-STATE OF DIFFRACTIVE AND NON-DIFFRACTIVE DEEP-INELASTIC SCATTERING AT HERA, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 70(4), 1996, pp. 609-620
An investigation of the hadronic final state in diffractive and non-di
ffractive deep-inelastic electron-proton scattering at HERA is present
ed, where diffractive data are selected experimentally by demanding a
large gap in pseudo-rapidity around the proton remnant direction. The
transverse energy flow in the hadronic final state is evaluated using
a set of estimators which quantify topological properties. Using avail
able Monte Carlo QCD calculations, it is demonstrated that the final s
tate in diffractive DIS exhibits the features expected if the interact
ion is interpreted as the scattering of an electron off a current quar
k with associated effects of perturbative QCD. A model in which deep-i
nelastic diffraction is taken to be the exchange of a pomeron with par
tonic structure is found to reproduce the measurements well. Models fo
r deep-inelastic ep scattering, in which a sizeable diffractive contri
bution is present because of non-perturbative effects in the productio
n of the hadronic final state, reproduce the general tendencies of the
data but in all give a worse description.