Diffractive di-hadron production at NLO within the shockwave formalism

Abstract

We compute the next-leading-order cross-sections for diffractive electro- or photoproduction of a pair of hadrons with large $p_T$, out of a nucleus or a nucleon. A hybrid factorization is used, mixing collinear and small-$x$ factorizations, more precisely shockwave formalism. We demonstrate the cancellation of divergences and extract the finite parts of the differential cross-section in general kinematics.

6 pages, 2 figures. Presented by E. Li at Diffraction and Low-x 2022, Corigliano Calabro, Italy, September 24-30, 2022