Diffractive Photoproduction of Jets with a Direct Pomeron Coupling at HERA

Abstract

We investigate in detail the effect of a direct pomeron coupling to quarks on the production of jets in $ep$ scattering with almost real photons. Jet production via a direct pomeron coupling is compared with the resolved--pomeron mechanism. We consider both direct and resolved photoproduction. Rapidity and transverse momentum distributions are calculated and compared with preliminary H1 and ZEUS data.

Comments: 21 pages, Latex file, 7 figures (uuencoded) enclosed, Preprint DESY 94-140, KEK-TH-407 and KEK Preprint 94-77