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Dual properties of inclusive spectra
Abstract The dual properties of the inclusive reaction π − p → pX are studied over a wide energy range by exploiting the scaling behaviour. Semi-local duality is found to be well satisfied. An energy-dependent triple-Regge analysis reveals a strong triple-pomeron coupling. There is some evidence of an abnormal component in which diffractively produced resonances are dual to pomeron exchange. Combining duality with factorization leads to relations between production cross sections of meson and baryon resonances in πp and pp collisions, which are compatible with existing experimental data.
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Regge phenomenology of inclusive reactions
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Geometrical description of hadronic collisions
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Overlap Analysis of Two-Body Scattering Amplitudes
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Structure of two-body correlations in high energy hadron production
Abstract Experimental information on diffraction is used to estimate long range effects in multiparticle production. Diffractively produced secondaries are found to produce a plateau in the central region. Diffraction accounts for 30% of the observed correlations and the remainder, consistent with being short range, corresponds to a cluster size of 2.4 charged particles.
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Evidence that hadronic interiors have a denser matter than charge distribution
Abstract An analysis of high-energy elastic and inelastic diffraction scattering provides strong evidence that the charge and matter densities of hadrons are different. When hadrons are treated as composite objects, then a correct Glauber analysis leads to an optical model with important corrections due to the hadronic wave function: One expects inelastic diffraction due to the fluctuations in the matter density of hadrons. Conversely, the experimental existence of dissociation processes gives phenomenological information about the hadronic wave function. We find the distribution of matter in nucleons to be denser than the observed charge distribution. This result has a natural interpretation from a constituent description of hadrons made from spin 1 2 quarks and colored vector gluons, which is a generalization of the Chou-Yang picture of diffraction scattering.
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Measurement of the single-jet invariant cross section at Fermilab
Abstract In an experiment performed at Fermilab we have studied the production of high p t hadron jets from 400 GeV/ c pp interactions. A large solid-angle, towered calorimeter was used to trigger and reconstruct the jet events. We report results for inclusive single-jet production and compare those results with QCD predictions and results obtained at the ISR and the SPS Collider.
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alphaPDE: A New multivariate technique for parameter estimation
Abstract We present α → PDE, a new multivariate analysis technique for parameter estimation. The method is based on a direct construction of joint probability densities of known variables and the parameters to be estimated. We show how posterior densities and best-value estimates are then obtained for the parameters of interest by a straightforward manipulation of these densities. The method is essentially non-parametric and allows for an intuitive graphical interpretation. We illustrate the method by outlining how it can be used to estimate the mass of the top quark, and we explain how the method is applied to an ensemble of events containing background.
120282404
A new multivariate technique for top quark search
Abstract We present a new multivariate event classifier, the PDE classifier, which can be used to identify rare signals in the presence of large backgrounds. The classifier is based on a discriminant function which uses kernel density estimates of the signal and background event densities. The PDE method offers the flexibility of a neural network but is conceptually simpler, theoretically better understood, and easier to optimize in practice. The technique is tested on Monte Carlo data using processes t t → e + E t + jets as signal and W + jets → e + Et + jets as background. The performance of the PDE classifier is similar to that of a neural network. Both methods outperform conventional analysis.
119722876
Measurement of the dijet cross section in 400-GeV pp collisions
The invariant cross section for production of jet pairs in 400-GeV/c pp interactions has been measured as a function of p{tau} in the p{tau} range 4 to 9 GeV/c. The results are in good agreement with predictions of perturbative QCD models. 20 refs., 3 figs., 1 tab.
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Triggering on high-transverse-momentum jets
We compare the characteristics of events selected by ''global'' and ''two-high'' triggers in large-transverse-energy hadron-hadron collisions. Using a QCD-based Monte Carlo model of Fox and collaborators, we find that the former is effectively a high-multiplicity trigger, the latter a high-planarity trigger favoring unusually clean jet events. Predictions of the model for both triggers are in good qualitative agreement with recent data.