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Tevatron versus HERA

Although much can be learned about the pomeron at HERA, there are distinct advantages to studying hard diffraction at the Tevatron. Diffractive systems with mass greater than 450 GeV/tex2html_wrap_inline2974 can be produced at the Tevatron compared to only 70 GeV/tex2html_wrap_inline2974 at HERA. This allows for the production of high tex2html_wrap_inline2834 objects at the Tevatron (such as W or Z bosons) as well as large jet cross sections. Without these large cross sections it is impossible to study high |t| exchange since the cross section decreases so steeply with |t| (Fig. 5). The super-hard pomeron can best be studied at the Tevatron, since at HERA it can result only from a higher twist diagram, which is suppressed (gluons from the pomeron cannot connect directly to the photon, but must connect to the hard scattering, a configuration which is suppressed) [32]. Double pomeron exchange obviously cannot be studied at an ep collider. Finally, one of the key results will stem from the comparison of pomeron structure in ep and tex2html_wrap_inline2812 collisions. If the pomeron behaves like a particle it should have consistent structure independent of the nature of the probe (electron or proton).



Gilvan Alves
Tue Mar 17 12:50:26 GRNLNDST 1998