https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2010-11020-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Gluon number fluctuations in diffractive deep inelastic scattering
1
Department of Physics, The University of South Dakota, 57069, Vermillon, SD, USA
2
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, D-33501, Bielefeld, Germany
Received:
6
June
2010
Accepted:
26
July
2010
Published online:
25
August
2010
We studied the effect of the gluon number fluctuations (Pomeron loops) on the diffractive deep inelastic scattering in the fixed coupling case. We used a parameter-free method to describe the experimental data and found that the description of the diffractive structure function is improved with 
/d.o.f. = 1.031 once the fluctuations in the gluon number are included. This improvement indicates that the gluon number fluctuations would be relevant in the HERA data.
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