Rapidity gap survival in central exclusive diffraction: Dynamical mechanisms and uncertainties

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dc.creatorStrikman, M.
dc.creatorWeiss, C.
dc.date2008-12-05
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dc.descriptionWe summarize our understanding of the dynamical mechanisms governing rapidity gap survival in central exclusive diffraction, pp -> p + H + p (H = high-mass system), and discuss the uncertainties in present estimates of the survival probability. The main suppression of diffractive scattering is due to inelastic soft spectator interactions at small pp impact parameters and can be described in a mean-field approximation (independent hard and soft interactions). Moderate extra suppression results from fluctuations of the partonic configurations of the colliding protons. At LHC energies absorptive interactions of hard spectator partons associated with the gg -> H process reach the black-disk regime and cause substantial additional suppression, pushing the survival probability below 0.01.
dc.description6 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of "HERA and the LHC" CERN-DESY Workshop, 2007-2008
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1053
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1053
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/209733
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleRapidity gap survival in central exclusive diffraction: Dynamical mechanisms and uncertainties
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