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Title: Hard diffraction and rapidity gaps

Conference ·
OSTI ID:122025

The field of hard diffraction, which studies events with a rapidity gap and a hard scattering, has expanded dramatically recently. A review of new results from CDF, D{O}, H1 and ZEUS will be given. These results include diffractive jet production, deep-inelastic scattering in large rapidity gap events, rapidity gaps between high transverse energy jets, and a search for diffractive W-boson production. The combination of these results gives new insight into the exchanged object, believed to be the pomeron. The results axe consistent with factorization and with a hard pomeron that contains both quarks and gluons. There is also evidence for the exchange of a strongly interacting color singlet in high momentum transfer (36 < {vert_bar}t{vert_bar} < 1000 GeV{sup 2}) events.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH03000
OSTI ID:
122025
Report Number(s):
FNAL/C-95/299-E; CONF-9506133-1; ON: DE96001840; TRN: 95:024593
Resource Relation:
Conference: 15. international conference on physics in collision, Krakow (Poland), 8-10 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English