Diffractive deep inelastic scattering at NLO in the dipole picture: the $q\bar{q}g$ contribution

Abstract

We calculate the contribution from the $q\bar{q}g$ state production to the diffractive cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at high energy. The obtained cross section is finite by itself and a part of the full next-to-leading order result for the diffractive structure functions. We perform the calculation in exact kinematics in the eikonal limit, and show that the previously known high-$Q^2$ and large $M_X^2$ results for the structure functions can be extracted from our results in the appropriate limits. We furthermore discuss the steps required to obtain the full next-to-leading order results for the structure functions.

Comments: 32 pages, 12 figures