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Diffraction at CDF

Diffraction at CDF. 12th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering Forward Physics and QCD – Blois2007 Hamburg, Germany, 21-25 May 2007. K. Goulianos The Rockefeller University (for the CDF collaboration). Contents. Introduction Diffractive structure function

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Diffraction at CDF

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  1. Diffraction at CDF 12th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering Forward Physics and QCD – Blois2007 Hamburg, Germany, 21-25 May 2007 K. Goulianos The Rockefeller University (for the CDF collaboration)

  2. Contents • Introduction • Diffractive structure function • Exclusive Production Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  3. POMERON p-p Interactions Non-diffractive: Color-exchange Diffractive: Colorless exchange with vacuum quantum numbers rapidity gap Incident hadrons acquire color and break apart Incident hadrons retain their quantum numbers remaining colorless Goal: understand the QCD nature of the diffractive exchange Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  4. MX p’ p’ p p MX Definitions xp x,t dN/dh rapgap Dh=-lnx h Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  5. Diffraction at CDF sT=Im fel (t=0) Elastic scattering Total cross section f f OPTICAL THEOREM GAP h h DD DPE SDD=SD+DD SD Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  6. Rapidity Gaps in Fireworks Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  7. CDF Run-I0 (1988-89) Elastic, diffractive, and total cross sections @ 546 and 1800 GeV Roman Pot Spectrometers CDF-I • Roman Pot Detectors • Scintillation trigger counters • Wire chamber • Double-sided silicon strip detector Roman Pots with Trackers up to |h| = 7 Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  8. Total SD x-section Factorization  Pomeron flux • Regge theory sSD exceeds sT at • Renormalization Pomeron flux integral (re)normalized to unity KG, PLB 358 (1995) 379 Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  9. renormalization 1 A Scaling Law in Diffraction KG&JM, PRD 59 (1999) 114017  Independent of S over 6 orders of magnitude in M2 ! Factorization breaks down so as to ensure M2-scaling! Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  10. Run-IC CDF Run-I Run-IA,B beam Forward Detectors BBC 3.2<h<5.9 FCAL 2.4<h<4.2 Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  11. Central and Multigap Diffraction • Double Diffraction Dissociation • One central gap • Double Pomeron Exchange • Two forward gaps • SDD: Single+Double Diffraction • One forward gap+ one central gap Rate for second diffractive gap is not suppressed! Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  12. Diffractive Fractions Fraction(%) Fraction: SD/ND ratio at 1800 GeV All ratios ~ 1% ~ uniform suppression ~ FACTORIZATION ! W 1.15 (0.55) JJ 0.75 (0.10) b 0.62 (0.25) J/y 1.45 (0.25) Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  13. R(SD/ND) R(DPE/SD) DSF from two/one gap: factorization restored! Diffractive non/Factorization b=momentum fraction of parton in Pomeron b=xBj/x The diffractive structure function measured on the proton side in events with a leading antiproton is NOT suppressed relative to predictions based on DDIS Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  14. Run II results • CDF-II detectors • Diffractive structure function • Exclusive Production Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  15. ROMAN POT DETECTORS BEAM SHOWER COUNTERS: Used to reject ND events MINIPLUG CALORIMETER CD-II Detectors Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  16. The MiniPlugs @ CDF Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  17. DIFFRACTIVE STRUCTURE FUNCTION Systematic uncertainties due to energy scale and resolution cancel out in the ratio Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  18. Diffractive Dijet Signal • - Bulk of data taken with RPS trigger but no RPS tracking • Extract x from calorimeter information • Calibrate calorimetric x using limited sample of RPS tracking data • Subtract overlap background using a rescaled dijet event sample • Verify diffractive x range by comparing xRPS with xCAL Overlap events: mainly ND dijets plus SD low x RPS trigger Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  19. Alignment of RPS using Data maximize the |t|-slope  determine X and Y offsets Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  20. xCAL Calibration overlap events signal region xcal distributionfor slice of xRPS / mean ~ 30% Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  21. jet p jet p Dijet Properties SD boosted opposite to pbar Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  22. 120 GeV ET distributions Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  23. Diffractive Structure Function:Q2 dependence ETjet ~ 100 GeV ! • Small Q2 dependence in region 100 < Q2 < 10,000 GeV2 • Pomeron evolves as the proton! Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  24. Diffractive Structure Function:t- dependence Fit ds/dt to a double exponential: • No diffraction dips • No Q2 dependence in slope from inclusive to Q2~104 GeV2 • Same slope over entire region of 0 < Q2 < 4,500 GeV2 across soft and hard diffraction! Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  25. p p valence quarks antiproton antiproton Hard Diffraction in QCD deep sea valence quarks Derive diffractive from inclusive PDFs and color factors x=x proton Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  26. H EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTION Measure exclusive jj & gg  Calibrate predictions for H production rates @ LHC Bialas, Landshoff, Phys.Lett. B 256,540 (1991) Khoze, Martin, Ryskin, Eur. Phys. J. C23, 311 (2002); C25,391 (2002);C26,229 (2002) C. Royon, hep-ph/0308283 B. Cox, A. Pilkington, PRD 72, 094024 (2005) OTHER………………………… KMR: sH(LHC) ~ 3 fb S/B ~ 1 if DM ~ 1 GeV Discovery channel • Search for exclusive gg • 3 candidate events found • 1 (+2/-1) predicted from ExHuME MC • estimated ~1 bgd event from p0 p0 ,hh Search for exclusive dijets: Measure dijet mass fraction Look for signal as Rjj 1 Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  27. Exclusive e+e- Production PRL 98, 112001 (2007) First observation in hadron colliders Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  28. Exclusive Dijet Signal Dijet fraction – all jets b-tagged dijet fraction DIJETS Exclusive b-jets are suppressed by JZ= 0 selection rule Excess over MC predictions at large dijet mass fraction Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  29. RJJ(excl): Data vs MC Exclusive DPE (DPEMC)  non-pQCD based on Regge theory ExHuME (KMR): gggg process  uses LO pQCD Shape of excess of events at high Rjj is well described by both models Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  30. jjexcl: Exclusive Dijet Signal COMPARISON Inclusive data vs MC @ b/c-jet data vs inclusive Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  31. JJexcl : x-section vs ET(min) Comparison with hadron level predictions ExHuME (red) Exclusive DPE in DPEMC (blue) Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  32. JJexcl : cross section predictions ExHuME Hadron-Level Differential Exclusive Dijet Cross Section vs Dijet Mass (dotted/red):Default ExHuME prediction (points): Derived from CDF Run II Preliminary excl. dijet cross sections Statistical and systematic errors are propagated from measured cross section uncertainties using ExHuME Mjj distribution shapes. Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

  33. Summary CDF - what we have learnt • M2 – scaling ds/M2 not a function of s • multigap diffractionrestoration of factorization! • flavor independence of diffractive fractions • small Q2 dependence of SD/ND xBJ-distributions • t-distributions independent of Q2 • exclusive dijet cross sections favor the perturbative QCD over the DPE approach LHC - what to do • Elastic and total cross sections & r-value • High mass (4 TeV) and multi-gap diffraction • Exclusive production (FP420 project) For a QCD perspective, see Tuesday’s talk on: “Pomerom Intercept and Slope: the QCD connection” Diffraction at CDFK. Goulianos

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