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Coherent Nuclear Diffractive Production of Minijets - Illuminating Color Transparency

L. Frankfurt, G. A. Miller, M. Strikman

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9305228

Abstract

The cross section for coherent nuclear processes in which an incident meson or photon dissociates diffractively into two jets of high relative transverse momentum (between about 1 and 3 GeV/c) is found to be proportional in QCD to A2 in a wide kinematical region. The leading correction to this is a significant positive term A7/3 caused by nuclear multiple-scattering. We find also that shadowing of hard diffractive processes reappears as a leading twist effect in the TeV energy range.

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