35 research outputs found
Diffractive production of charm quark/antiquark pairs at RHIC and LHC
We have discussed single and central diffractive production of
pairs in the Ingelman-Schlein model. In these calculations we have included
diffractive parton distributions obtained by the H1 collaboration at HERA and
absorption effects neglected in some early calculations in the literature. The
absorption effects which are responsible for the naive Regge factorization
breaking cause that the cross section for diffractive processes is much smaller
than that for the fully inclusive case, but could be measured at RHIC and LHC
by imposing special condition on rapidity gaps. We discuss also different
approaches to diffractive production of heavy quark/antiquark. The particular
mechanism is similar to the diffractive dissociation of virtual photons into
quarks, which drives diffractive deep inelastic production of charm in the
low-mass diffraction, or large -region.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, talk given by M. Luszczak at International
Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, DIFFRACTION 2012, Puerto del
Carmen, Lanzarote. (Canary Islands), Spain. September 10 - 15, 201
pair production in proton-proton collisions: small missing terms
production is one of the golden channels for testing the Standard
Model as well for searches beyond the Standard Model. We discuss many new
subleading processes for inclusive production of pairs generally not
included in the litterature so far. We focus mainly on photon-photon induced
processes. We include elastic-elastic, elastic-inelastic, inelastic-elastic and
inelastic-inelastic contributions. We also calculate the contributions with
resolved photons including the partonic substructure of the virtual photon.
Predictions for the total cross section and differential distributions in -
boson rapidity and transverse momentum as well as invariant mass are
presented. The components only constitute about 1-2 \% of the
inclusive cross section but increases up to about 10 \% at large
transverse momenta, and are even comparable to the dominant component at large , i.e. are much larger than the
one.Comment: 26 pages, 17 figure and 1 table. arXiv admin note: substantial text
overlap with arXiv:1309.720