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    Measurement of the t distribution in diffractive photoproduction at HERA.

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    Photon diffractive dissociation, gamma p --> Xp, has been studied at HERA with the ZEUS detector using ep interactions where the virtuality Q^2 of the exchanged photon is smaller than 0.02 GeV^2. The squared four-momentum t exchanged at the proton vertex was determined in the range 0.073 < \t\ < 0.40 GeV^2 by measuring the scattered proton in the ZEUS Leading Proton Spectrometer. In the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy interval 176 < W < 225 GeV and for masses of the dissociated photon system 4 < M(x) < 32 GeV, the t distribution has an exponential shape, dN/d\t\ proportional to exp (-b\t\), with a slope parameter b = 6.8 +/- 0.9 (stat.)(-1.1)(+1.2) (syst.) GeV^(-2)

    Measurement of the diffractive structure function F_2(D4) at HERA

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    This paper presents the first analysis of diffractive photon dissociation events in deep inelastic positron-proton scattering at HERA in which the proton in the final state is detected and its momentum measured. The events are selected by requiring a scattered proton in the ZEUS leading proton spectrometer (LPS) with x_L > 0.97, where x_L is the fraction of the incoming proton beam momentum carried by the scattered proton. The use of the LPS signicantly reduces the contamination from events with diffractive dissociation of the proton into low mass states and allows a direct measurement of t, the square of the four-momentum exchanged at the proton vertex
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