The compatibility of diffractive hard scattering in p pbar and ep collisions

Abstract

We show that the data for diffractive dijet production at the Tevatron p pbar collider are consistent with diffractive deep inelastic e p data collected at HERA. The breakdown of factorization between the two data sets is naturally explained by a strong tendency to populate the rapidity gap in the p pbar diffractive process by secondaries from soft underlying interactions and by bremsstrahlung associated with the presence of the hard dijet subprocess.

8 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX, version to be published in PLB

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