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Quark initiated coherent diffractive production of muon pair and W boson at hadron colliders

Feng Yuan, Kuang-Ta Chao

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9811285

Abstract

The large transverse momentum muon pair and W boson productions in the quark initiated coherent diffractive processes at hadron colliders are discussed under the framework of the two-gluon exchange parametrization of the Pomeron model. In this approach, the production cross sections are related to the small-x off-diagonal gluon distribution and the large-x quark distribution in the proton (antiproton). By approximating the off-diagonal gluon distribution by the usual gluon distribution function, we estimate the production rates of these processes at the Fermilab Tevatron.

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