Soft and Hard Diffraction at CDF

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Soft and Hard Diffraction at CDF
Konstantin Goulianos The Rockefeller University
The CDF Collaboration
Xth Blois Workshop on Elastic and Diffractive
Scattering 23-28 June 2003, Helsinki, Finland
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Introduction

• What is hadronic diffraction?

Diffraction dissociation
coherence
KG, Phys. Rep. 101 (1983) 171
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Diffraction and Rapidity Gaps

• rapidity gaps are regions of rapidity devoid of
  particles

• Non-diffractive interactions

• Diffractive interactions

rapidity gaps are formed by multiplicity
fluctuations
rapidity gaps, like diamonds, live for ever
From Poisson statistics
(rparticle density in rapidity space)
Gaps are exponentially suppressed

• large rapidity gaps are signatures for
  diffraction

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The Pomeron

• Quark/gluon exchange across a rapidity gap
• 
  POMERON
• No particles radiated in the gap
• the exchange is
  COLOR-SINGLET with quantum numbers of vacuum
• Rapidity gap formation
• 
  NON-PERTURBATIVE
• Diffraction probes the large distance aspects
  of QCD
• POMERON
  CONFINEMENT

• PARTONIC STRUCTURE
• FACTORIZATION

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Diffraction at CDF in Run I

• Elastic scattering
• Total cross section
• Diffraction

PRD 50 (1994) 5518
PRD 50 (1994) 5550
SOFT diffraction
Control sample
PRD PRL
PRL PRL 50 (1994) 5535
87 (2001)141802 to be subd accepted
HARD diffraction
PRL reference
with roman pots
W 78 (1997) 2698 JJ 74 (1995) 855 JJ 85 (2000) 4217
JJ 79 (1997) 2636 JJ 80 (1998) 1156
b-quark 84 (2000) 232 JJ 81 (1998) 5278
J/y 87 (2001) 241802
JJ 84 (2000) 5043
JJ 88 (2002) 151802
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Soft diffraction
parton model

• Factorization (re)normalization

Pomeron trajectory
COLOR FACTOR
Renormalize to unity KG, PLB 358 (1995) 379
Gap probability
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Soft Single Diffraction Data
Total cross section KG, PLB 358 (1995) 379
Differential cross section KGJM, PRD 59 (114017)
1999
REGGE
RENORM
s-independent

• Differential shape agrees with Regge
• Normalization is suppressed by factor
• Renormalize Pomeron flux factor to unity

M2 SCALING
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Central and Double Gaps

• Double diffraction
• Plot Events versus Dh

• Double Pomeron Exchange
• Measure
• Plot Events versus log(x)

• SDD singledouble diffraction
• Central gaps in SD events

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Two-Gap Diffraction (hep-ph/0205141)
5 independent variables
color factor
Gap probability
Sub-energy cross section (for regions with
particles)
Integral
Renormalization removes the s-dependence
SCALING
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Central and Double-Gap Results
Differential shapes agree with Regge predictions
DD
SDD
DPE

• One-gap cross sections require renormalization

• Two-gap/one-gap ratios are

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Soft Double Pomeron Exchange

• Roman Pot triggered events
• 0.035 lt x-pbar lt 0.095
• t-pbar lt 1 GeV 2
• x-proton measured using
• Data compared to MC based
• on Pomeron exchange with
• Pomeron intercept e0.1

• Good agreement over the entire kinematic
  region (4 orders of magnitude!)

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Hard diffraction in Run I

• CDF Forward Detectors

Rapidity gaps
Antiproton tag
BBC 3.2lthlt5.9 FCAL 2.4lthlt4.2
Diffractive dijets

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Hard Diffraction Using Rapidity Gaps

• SINGLE DIFFRACTION

• DOUBLE DIFFRACTION

SD/ND gap fraction () at 1800 GeV
DD/ND gap fraction at 1800 GeV

• All SD/ND fractions 1
• Gluon fraction
• Suppression by 5 relative to HERA

Just like in ND except for the suppression due
to gap formation
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Diffractive Dijets with Leading Antiproton
The diffractive structure function
Bjorken-x of antiproton
Nucleon structure function
Diffractive structure function
ISSUES 1) QCD factorization gt
is FSD universal?
2) Regge factorization gt
?
momentum fraction of parton in IP

• METHOD of measuring FSD measure ratio R(x,t)
  of SD/ND rates for given x,t
• set
  R(x,t)FSD/FND
• 
  evaluate FSD R FND

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Dijets in Single Diffraction
Test Regge factorization
Test QCD factorization
Regge factorization holds
Suppressed at the Tevatron relative to
predictions based on HERA parton densities
!!!
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Dijets in Double Pomeron Exchange
Test of factorization
R(SD/ND)
equal?
R(DPE/SD)
Factorization breaks down
The second gap is un-suppressed!!!
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Run II Diffraction at the Tevatron

• CDF Forward Detectors

• MiniPlug calorimeters (3.5lthlt5.5)
• Beam Shower Counters (5.5lthlt7.5)
• Antiproton Roman Pot Spectrometer

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Run II Forward Detector Layout

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MiniPlug Run II Data
MiniPlug tower structure

• ADC counts in MiniPlug towers
• in a pbar-p event at 1960 GeV.
• jet indicates an energy cluster
• and may be just a hadron.
• Approximately 1000 counts 1 GeV

Multiplicity distribution in SD and ND events
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Run II Data Samples
Triggers
J5 At least one cal tower with ET gt 5 GeV
RP inclusive Three-fold coincidence in RP trigger counters
RPJ5 Single Diffractive dijet candidates
RPJ5BSC-GAP_p Double Pomeron Exchange dijet candidates

• Results presented are from 26 pb-1 of data
• The Roman Pot tracking system was not
  operational for these data samples
• The x of the (anti)proton was determined from
  calorimeter information

(-) is for (anti)proton
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Diffractive Dijet Sample
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Diffractive Dijet Structure Function
Ratio of SD to ND dijet event rates as a function
of xBj compared with Run I data
No x dependence observed within 0.03 lt x
lt0.1 (confirms Run I result)
Ratio of SD to ND dijet eventrates as a function
of xBj for different values of Q2ET2
No appreciable Q2 dependence observed within
100 lt Q2 lt 1600 GeV
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Dijets in DPE

In SD data with RPJ5 trigger select events with
rapidity gap in both the BSC_p and MP_p (3.5 lt h
lt7.5)
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Data Selection
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DPE Dijet Kinematics
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Inclusive/Exclusive DPE Dijet Predictions
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Limit on Exclusive DPE Dijets (Run I)

• Observed 100 DPE dijet events
• 0.035 lt x lt 0.095
• Jet ET gt 7 GeV
• Rapidity gap in 2.4 lt h lt 5.9

Dijet mass fraction
MJJ based on energy within cone of 0.7 gt look
for exclusive dijets in window
0.7 lt RJJ lt 0.9
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Run II Exclusive DPE Dijets ?
No exclusive dijet bump observed
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Double Pomeron Exchange Dijet Events
Rjj0.81, Jet1(2)33.4(31.5) GeV
Rjj0.36, Jet1(2)36.2(33.3) GeV
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SUMMARY

• Soft and hard conclusions

Hard
SOFT
Diffraction is an interaction between low-x
partons subject to color constraints