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| Article | |
| Report number | hep-ex/9709015 ; CERN-PPE-97-126 ; CERN-PPE-97-126 |
| Title | Cross-section measurements of hard diffraction at the S$p\overline{p}$S- Collider |
| Author(s) | Brandt, A. (UCLA) ; Erhan, S. (UCLA) ; Kuzucu, A. (UCLA) ; Medinnis, M. (UCLA) ; Ozdes, N. (UCLA) ; Schlein, P.E. (UCLA) ; Zeyrek, M.T. (UCLA) ; Zweizig, J.G. (UCLA) ; Cheze, J.B. (Saclay) ; Zsembery, J. (Saclay) |
| Affiliation | (UCLA) ; (CEN Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette) ; (CERN) |
| Collaboration | UA8 Collaboration |
| Publication | 1998 |
| Imprint | 10 Sep 1997 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Note | 20 pages, 5 Encapsulated Postscript figures, LaTex, Final Version, Physics Letters B (in Pess 1998) |
| In: | Phys. Lett. B 421 (1998) 395 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01563-3 |
| Subject category | Particle Physics - Experiment |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN SPS ; UA8 |
| Abstract | The UA8 experiment previously reported the observation of jets in diffractive events containing leading protons (``hard diffraction''), which was interpreted as evidence for the partonic structure of an exchanged Reggeon, believed to be the Pomeron . In the present Letter, we report the final UA8 hard-diffractive (jet) cross section results and their interpretation. After corrections, the fraction of single diffractive events with mass from 118 to 189 GeV that have two scattered partons, each with Et_jet > 8 GeV, is in the range 0.002 to 0.003 (depending on x_p). We determine the product, fK, of the fraction by which the Pomeron's momentum sum rule is violated and the normalization constant of the Pomeron-Flux-Factor of the proton. For a pure gluonic- or a pure qqbar-Pomeron , respectively: fK = 0.30 +- 0.05 +- 0.09) and (0.56 +- 0.09 +- 0.17) GeV^-2. |
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