Phys. Rev. D 59, 074022 (1999) [17 pages]Diffractive production of jets and weak bosons and tests of hard-scattering factorizationReceived 24 January 1997; revised 11 May 1998; published 9 March 1999 We extract diffractive parton densities from data on diffractive deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and on diffractive photoproduction of jets. We explore the results of several Ansätze for the functional form of the parton densities. Then we use the fitted parton densities to predict the diffractive production of jets and of W’s and Z’s in pp̅ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron. To fit the photoproduction data requires a large gluon density in the Pomeron. The predictions for the Tevatron cross sections are substantially higher than data; this signals a breakdown of hard-scattering factorization in diffractive hadron-hadron collisions. © 1999 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.074022
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.59.074022
PACS:
13.60.Hb, 13.85.Qk, 13.87.-a
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