Hard diffractive Photon-Proton Scattering at large t

D. Yu. Ivanov, M. Wusthoff

We propose to test perturbative QCD in the Regge limit by means of diffractive photon scattering $\gamma p\to \gamma X$ at large $t$ and very high energies $W^2\gg |t|\gg {\Lambda }_{QCD}^2$. The heli…