The fusion of hard and soft Pomerons: 3-jet diffractive production

Abstract

We consider the central exclusive production of high $E_T$ jets $pp\to p+(X+\mathrm{dijet})+p$. In particular we study the possible contamination of the purely exclusive signal by semi-exclusive production where no other secondaries are emitted in one hemisphere, between the highest $E_T$ dijet and the recoil proton, while in the other hemisphere a third jet, plus possibly additional hadron activity, is allowed, but still separated from the incoming proton by a large rapidity gap. This process arising from the fusion of a hard and a soft Pomeron has not been considered before. It turns out that it gives a negligible contribution. %contamination, which was not known before the calculation. The calculation involves a careful treatment of the QCD colour structure of the amplitudes.

arXiv comment15 pages, 4 figures, version to be published in EPJC

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