Double diffraction dissociation at the Fermilab Tevatron collider.
Phys Rev Lett 87:14 (2001) 141802
Authors:
T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, P Amaral, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, MW Bailey, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, K Borras, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, S van Den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, J Done, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, E Engels, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, Q Fan, RG Feild, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, B Flaugher, GW Foster, M Franklin, J Freeman, J Friedman, Y Fukui, I Furic, S Galeotti, A Gallas, M Gallinaro, T Gao, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, P Gatti, C Gay, DW Gerdes, P Giannetti, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Goldstein, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, C Green, G Grim, P Gris, L Groer, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, G Guillian, J Guimaraes Da Costa, RM Haas, C Haber, SR Hahn, C Hall, T Handa, R Handler, W Hao, F Happacher, K Hara, AD Hardman, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, J Heinrich, A Heiss, M Herndon, C Hill, KD Hoffman, C Holck, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, H Ikeda, J Incandela, G Introzzi, J Iwai, Y Iwata, E James, M Jones, U Joshi, H Kambara, T Kamon, T Kaneko, K Karr, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, K Kelley, M Kelly, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, D Khazins, T Kikuchi, B Kilminster, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, M Kirk, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, A Korn, A Korytov, E Kovacs, J Kroll, M Kruse, SE Kuhlmann, K Kurino, T Kuwabara, AT Laasanen, N Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, M Lancaster, R Lander, G Latino, T LeCompte, AM Lee, K Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, M Lindgren, TM Liss, JB Liu, YC Liu, DO Litvintsev, O Lobban, N Lockyer, J Loken, M Loreti, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, L Lyons, J Lys, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, M Mangano, M Mariotti, G Martignon, A Martin, JA Matthews, J Mayer, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, E McKigney, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, R Miller, JS Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, G Mitselmakher, N Moggi, E Moore, R Moore, Y Morita, T Moulik, M Mulhearn, A Mukherjee, T Muller, A Munar, P Murat, S Murgia, J Nachtman, V Nagaslaev, S Nahn, H Nakada, I Nakano, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, CY Ngan, H Niu, L Nodulman, A Nomerotski, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, T Okusawa, J Olsen, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, D Partos, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, L Pescara, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, M Popovic, F Prokoshin, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, O Pukhov, G Punzi, A Rakitine, D Reher, A Reichold, A Ribon, W Riegler, F Rimondi, L Ristori, M Riveline, WJ Robertson, A Robinson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, A Roy, A Ruiz, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, H Sato, P Savard, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scott, A Scribano, S Segler, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, T Shah, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, T Shibayama, M Shimojima, M Shochet, A Sidoti, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, C Smith, FD Snider, A Solodsky, J Spalding, T Speer, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, J Steele, A Stefanini, J Strologas, F Strumia, D Stuart, K Sumorok, T Suzuki, T Takano, R Takashima, K Takikawa, P Tamburello, M Tanaka, B Tannenbaum, M Tecchio, R Tesarek, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, AS Thompson, R Thurman-Keup, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, D Tonelli, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, JF de Troconiz, J Tseng, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Vaiciulis, J Valls, S Vejcik, G Velev, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, NB Wallace, C Wang, MJ Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, T Watanabe, D Waters, T Watts, R Webb, H Wenzel, WC Wester, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, T Wilkes, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Winn, S Wolbers, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, S Wolinski, S Worm, X Wu, J Wyss, A Yagil, W Yao, GP Yeh, P Yeh, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, A Zanetti, F Zetti, S Zucchelli
Abstract:
We present results from a measurement of double diffraction dissociation in pp collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The production cross section for events with a central pseudorapidity gap of width Deltaeta(0)>3 (overlapping eta = 0) is found to be 4.43+/-0.02(stat)+/-1.18(syst) mb [ 3.42+/-0.01(stat)+/-1.09(syst) mb] at square root of (s) = 1800[630] GeV. Our results are compared with previous measurements and with predictions based on Regge theory and factorization.
