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Hard Diffraction in Pythia 8

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-11 v1

Abstract

We present an overview of the options for diffraction implemented in the general--purpose event generator Pythia 8. We review the existing model for low-- and high--mass soft diffraction and present a new model for hard diffraction in pp and ppbar collisions. Both models uses the Pomeron approach pioneered by Ingelman and Schlein, factorising the single diffractive cross section into a Pomeron flux and a Pomeron PDF. The model for hard diffraction is implemented as a part of the multiparton interactions framework, thereby introducing a dynamical rapidity gap survival probability that explicitly breaks factorisation.

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@article{arxiv.1509.03115,
  title  = {Hard Diffraction in Pythia 8},
  author = {Christine O. Rasmussen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03115},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures. Presented at the 16th conference on Elastic and Diffractive scattering (EDS Blois 2015)

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