Factorization and Scaling in Hard Diffraction
arXiv:hep-ph/9708217 · doi:10.1063/1.53630
Abstract
We compare results on diffractive W-boson production at the Tevatron with predictions based on the diffractive structure function measured in deep inelastic scattering at HERA assuming (a) conventional factorization or (b) hard factorization combined with a rapidity gap distribution scaled to the total gap probability. We find that conventional factorization fails, while the scaling prediction agrees with the data.
6pp, LaTex file, uses psfig, 1 PS figure, presented at DIS97