Soft QCD Results from CDF
arXiv:1106.3117
Abstract
We review the latest underlying event and minimum bias results and discuss the associated problematics with the idea of establishing a solid baseline for the LHC experiments. These measurements include study of the underlying event in Drell-Yan and dijet events, and inclusive differential (in ) cross sections of centrally (1) produced lambdas, cascades and omegas. We also present recent results on diffraction obtained by the CDF collaboration. Single-diffractive W and Z production is discussed. The first experimental observation of exclusive dijets, exclusive mesons, and a search for exclusive diphotons are discussed. We also present results from a study of central rapidity gap production in soft and hard diffractive events.
Talk presented at the 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2010, July 22-28, 2010, Paris, France, 5 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for publication by Proceedings of Science