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Hard Diffraction with Dynamic Gap Survival

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-01-03 v2

Abstract

We present a new framework for the modelling of hard diffraction in pp and ppbar collisions. It starts from the the approach pioneered by Ingelman and Schlein, wherein the single diffractive cross section is factorized into a Pomeron flux and a Pomeron PDF. To this it adds a dynamically calculated rapidity gap survival factor, derived from the modelling of multiparton interactions. This factor is not relevant for diffraction in ep collisions, giving non-universality between HERA and Tevatron diffractive event rates. The model has been implemented in Pythia 8 and provides a complete description of the hadronic state associated with any hard single diffractive process. Comparisons with ppbar and pp data reveal improvement in the description of single diffractive events.

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@article{arxiv.1512.05525,
  title  = {Hard Diffraction with Dynamic Gap Survival},
  author = {Christine O. Rasmussen and Torbjörn Sjöstrand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.05525},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

30 pages, 13 figures. Replaced with published version

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