Dijet Production by Double Pomeron Exchange at the Fermilab Tevatron

Authors

T. Affolder, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration

Date of this Version

11-13-2000

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4215 (2000) . http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2000 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We report the first observation of dijet events with a double Pomeron exchange topology produced in p̅p collisions at √s= 1800 GeV. The events are characterized by a leading antiproton, two jets in the central pseudorapidity region, and a large rapidity gap on the outgoing proton side. We present results on jet kinematics and production rates, compare them with corresponding results from single diffractive and inclusive dijet production, and test factorization.