123478569
Coherent production on nuclei does not measure total cross sections for unstable particles
We calculate diffractive production in nucleon-nucleus collisions using a parton model. We fit the result by the standard optical-model formula, and obtain estimates of 12--30 mb for the cross section of the diffractively produced system on a nucleon. The actual value of that cross section in the model is 65 mb. Estimates for the total cross section of an unstable hadron which are based on the A dependence of coherent production should therefore not be trusted.
120158411
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.
120791551
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.
118941079
Regge phenomenology of inclusive reactions
121815942
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.
116894731
Overlap Analysis of Two-Body Scattering Amplitudes
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.
122409672
HIGH TRANSVERSE ENERGY PROTON - NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS AT 400-GeV/c
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.
198138883
Experimental information on the pion gluon distribution function
An experiment performed at Fermilab used double-arm calorimeter triggers to study di-jet production by 400 GeV protons and 200 GeVπ− mesons incident on liquid hydrogen. The observed ratio of positive to negative leading particles in the jets was compared forpp andπp production using a tree level parton scattering model. The results are moderately sensitive to the form of the pion gluon distribution function and yieldx g(x)⋍(1−x)2.75±0.40±0.75.
120544624
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.