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Title: Survival probability for diffractive dijet production in pp collisions from next-to-leading order calculations

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Universite Joseph Fourier/CNRS-IN2P3/INPG, 53 Avenue des Martyrs, F-38026 Grenoble (France)

We perform next-to-leading order calculations of the single-diffractive and nondiffractive cross sections for dijet production in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron. By comparing their ratio to the data published by the CDF collaboration for two different center-of-mass energies, we deduce the rapidity-gap survival probability as a function of the momentum fraction of the parton in the antiproton. Assuming Regge factorization, this probability can be interpreted as a suppression factor for the diffractive structure function measured in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA. In contrast to the observations for photoproduction, the suppression factor in proton-antiproton collisions depends on the momentum fraction of the parton in the Pomeron even at next-to-leading order.

OSTI ID:
21325221
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 80, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.074006; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English