UNSPECIFIED (2016) Dijet production in √s=7 TeV pp collisions with large rapidity gaps at the ATLAS experiment. Physics Letters B, 754. pp. 214-234. ISSN 0370-2693
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Abstract
A 6.8 nb−1 sample of pp collision data collected under low-luminosity conditions at √s=7 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to study diffractive dijet production. Events containing at least two jets with PT > 20 GeV are selected and analysed in terms of variables which discriminate between diffractive and non-diffractive processes. Cross sections are measured differentially in ΔηF, the size of the observable forward region of pseudorapidity which is devoid of hadronic activity, and in an estimator, , of the fractional momentum loss of the proton assuming single diffractive dissociation (pp→pX). Model comparisons indicate a dominant non-diffractive contribution up to moderately large ΔηF and small , with a diffractive contribution which is significant at the highest ΔηF and the lowest . The rapidity-gap survival probability is estimated from comparisons of the data in this latter region with predictions based on diffractive parton distribution functions.