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               Parton-Parton Elastic Scattering and Rapidity Gaps\\
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               at Tevatron Energies \footnote{\ninerm\baselineskip=11pt
               Talk presented by V.D.D.}  \\}
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{\tenrm Vittorio Del Duca and Wai-Keung Tang\\}
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{\tenit Stanford Linear Accelerator Center\\}
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{\tenit Stanford University, Stanford, California\\}
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{\tenrm ABSTRACT}}
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 \noindent
The theory of the perturbative pomeron,
due to Lipatov and collaborators, is used to compute the
probability of observing parton-parton elastic scattering and rapidity
gaps between jets in hadron collisions at Tevatron energies.
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{\elevenbf\noindent 1. Introduction}
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At the SSC and LHC hadron colliders events predicted by the Standard
Model, like Higgs-boson production
via electroweak boson fusion, will be experimentally accessible. A
characterictic feature of this process is that
no color is exchanged in the $t$ channel between the scattering hadrons,
the color exchange being confined to the fragmentation region between
the struck and spectator partons$^1$. On a Lego plot in
azimuthal angle and rapidity, the signal will present, at the parton level,
a rapidity gap between the struck partons$^2$.

There is, however, a background to this process from Higgs boson
production via the
fusion of two pairs of gluons in color singlet configurations$^{2,3}$.
Also in this case, no color is exchanged in the $t$ channel between the struck
partons. To understand the dynamics of such background events, we undertake
here the propedeutic study of hadron-hadron scattering with exchange in the $t$
channel of a pair of gluons in a color singlet configuration. Such a
study can be already done experimentally at the energies of the Tevatron
collider$^4$, and indeed the first data on rapidity gaps in hadron
collisions starts being available$^5$.

In this talk I illustrate a way of computing
parton-parton elastic scattering and rapidity gaps between
jets in hadron collisions at very high energies$^6$, and use it to make
predictions on rapidity gap production at Tevatron energies.
In     order    to    obtain    quantitative
predictions   of jet production in the high energy limit,
we tag two jets at a large rapidity interval $y$ and with
transverse  momentum  of order $m$ and compute the total cross
section$^{7}$ through the BFKL theory$^{8}$, which
systematically corrects the lowest-order QCD result,
by summing the leading logarithms of $\hat s$.
The total cross section is related, through the optical theorem,
to the elastic scattering amplitude with color singlet exchange in the
$t$ channel. This leads to a final state which, at the
parton level, contains two jets with a rapidity gap in gluon production
between them.

We next study the potential
backgrounds to these signals at the parton and hadron level.
At the parton-level background, gluon exchange also
contributes if we assume that we cannot
detect partons with transverse momentum smaller
than a fixed parameter $\mu$.
In order to use perturbative QCD, the parameter $\mu$ must be larger
than $\Lambda_{QCD}$. Thus we have two options:
first, we can consider $m \gg \mu \gg \Lambda_{QCD}$, that is, we define a
rapidity gap to be present if there are no jets of transverse momentum
larger than $\mu$ between the tagging
jets. We will call this case $quasi\,\, elastic\,\, scattering$.
The ratio $R$ of the quasi-elastic to the total
cross section is given by
\begin{equation}
R(\mu) = {\sigma_{singlet} + \sigma_{octet} \over \sigma_{tot}},
\end{equation}
where all the cross sections in (1) have been convoluted with the
appropriate parton distributions.
Alternatively, we can consider
$\mu = O(\Lambda_{QCD})$. Then at the parton level the color octet
exchange is strongly suppressed, and only the color singlet exchange
contributes to the cross section for producing rapidity gaps.

At the hadron level,
the interation between spectator partons  may produce hadrons across the
rapidity interval, spoiling the rapidity gap. Thus in
order to compute the cross section for producing a rapidity gap at the
hadron level, we need a non-perturbative model
to estimate the survival of the rapidity gap$^2$.
The rapidity-gap survival probability $<S^2>$ is defined
as the probability that in a scattering event no other interaction
occurs beside the hard collision of interest.
$<S^2>$ is expected to depend on the hadron-hadron center of mass
energy, but only weakly on the size of the rapidity gap.
Then to obtain the probability of a scattering
event with a large rapidity gap at the hadron level, we must compute
the ratio $R$ at $\mu = 0$, that is, using only the singlet elastic
cross section, and multiply it by the survival probability $<S^2>$:
\begin{equation}
R_{gap} = <S^2> R(\mu = 0).
\end{equation}
In this contribution, we compute $R(\mu)$ at the
Tevatron center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$= 1.8 TeV and at different
values of the minimum transverse momentum of the tagging jets $m$ and
the elastic scale $\mu$.
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{\elevenbf\noindent 2. Jet Cross Sections}
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We consider the scattering of two hadrons of
momenta $k_A$ and $k_B$ in the center-of-mass frame
and we imagine to  tag two jets at the extremes
of the Lego plot, with the rapidity interval between them filled
with jets. The tagging jets
can be characterized by their transverse momenta $p_{A\perp}$ and
$p_{B\perp}$ and by their rapidities $y_A$ and $y_B$. The inclusive
cross section for producing two tagging jets with transverse momenta
greater than a minimum value $m$ is then$^7$
\begin{eqnarray}
& &{d\sigma \over dy d\bar{y}}(AB\rightarrow j(x_A) j(x_B) + X) = \nonumber\\
& & \int dp_{A\perp}^2 dp_{B\perp}^2 \prod_{i=A,B}
   \biggl[G(x_i,m^2) + 4/9 \sum_f [Q_f(x_i,m^2) +
   \bar Q_f(x_i,m^2)]\biggr] {d\hat\sigma_{tot} \over dp_{A\perp}^2
   dp_{B\perp}^2}
\end{eqnarray}
where $x_A \simeq e^{y_A} p_{A\perp}/\sqrt{s}$,
$x_B\simeq e^{-y_B} p_{B\perp}/\sqrt{s}$ are the light-cone momentum fractions
of the tagging
jets with respect to their parent hadrons, $y = |y_A-y_B|$ is the
rapidity difference and $\bar{y} = (y_A+y_B)/2$ is the rapidity boost,
$\hat s = 2\, k_A \cdot k_B x_A x_B$ is the parton-parton squared
center-of-mass energy, and
\begin{equation}
{d\hat\sigma_{tot} \over dp_{A\perp}^2 dp_{B\perp}^2} =
{(\alpha_s C_A)^2 \over 2 p_{A\perp}^3 p_{B\perp}^3}
\int_0^{\infty} d\nu e^{\omega(\nu)y} \cos\left( \nu\ln {p_{A\perp}^2 \over
p_{B\perp}^2} \right)
\end{equation}
is the BFKL total cross section for gluon-gluon
scattering within an impact distance of size $1/m$, and
\begin{equation}
\omega(\nu) = {2 \alpha_s C_A \over\pi}\left[ \psi(1) - \Re\psi
   ({1\over 2} +i\nu) \right],
\end{equation}
with $\psi(z)$ the logarithmic derivative of the Gamma function.
In eq. (3) we use
the large-$y$ effective parton distribution functions, computed
at the factorization scale $Q^2 = m^2$.

The high-energy elastic cross section for two tagging jets, with color
singlet exchange in the $t$ channel, is
\begin{equation}
{d\sigma_{sing} \over dy d\bar{y}}(AB\rightarrow j(x_A) j(x_B)) =
\int d\hat{t} \prod_{i=A,B}
\biggl[G(x_i,m^2) + (4/9)^2 \sum_f [Q_f(x_i,m^2) + \bar Q_f(x_i,m^2)]\biggr]
{d\hat\sigma_{sing} \over d\hat{t}},
\end{equation}
where $\hat t \simeq -p_{\perp}^2$, with $p_{\perp}$ the transverse
momentum of the tagging jets. The gluon-gluon elastic scattering
cross section, with the tagging jets collimated and with minimum
transverse momentum $m$, is$^{9}$
\begin{equation}
{d\hat\sigma_{sing} \over d\hat{t}} = {(\alpha_s C_A)^4 \over 4\pi
\hat{t}^2} \left(\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} d\nu {{\nu}^2\over \left(
{\nu}^2+{1\over
4} \right)^2} e^{\omega(\nu)y} \right)^2.
\end{equation}
Since two reggeized gluons are involved in the color singlet
exchange in the $t$ channel, in keeping into account in (6) the possibility
that the scattering is initiated by quarks we obtain the suppression
factor $(4/9)^2$. The background to the color singlet exchange comes
from the exchange of a reggeized gluon$^{9}$. This contribution is given by
\begin{equation}
{d\sigma_{octet} \over dy d\bar{y}}(AB\rightarrow j(x_A) j(x_B) ) =
 \prod_{i=A,B}
   \biggl[G(x_i,m^2) + 4/9 \sum_f [Q_f(x_i,m^2) +
   \bar Q_f(x_i,m^2)]\biggr] {d\hat\sigma_{oct} \over d\hat{t}},
\end{equation}
where the gluon-gluon
elastic scattering cross section in the color octet channel is
\begin{equation}
{d\hat\sigma_{oct} \over d\hat{t}} = {\pi (\alpha_s C_A)^2 \over 2\hat
t^2} \exp\left( -{\alpha_s C_A \over \pi} \, y \, {1\over
\sqrt{1+4\mu^2/p_{\perp}^2}} \ln{\sqrt{1+4\mu^2/p_{\perp}^2} + 1 \over
\sqrt{1+4\mu^2/p_{\perp}^2} - 1} \right).
\end{equation}
For $m \gg \mu$ the exponential reduces to$^{9}$ $\exp(- \alpha_s C_A / \pi
\ln(p_{\perp}^2/\mu^2) \, y)$ and has the typical form of a Sudakov form
factor.
As $\mu \rightarrow 0$, or $y$ becomes large, the contribution of the
octet to the gluon-gluon elastic cross section vanishes.
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{\elevenbf\noindent 3. The Numerical Evaluation of the Ratio $R(\mu)$}
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$R(\mu)$ is the probability of having elastic scattering at the parton
level, as defined in (1), and is obtained by summing (6) and (8),
and dividing by (3). To evaluate it, we scale the running coupling
constant from $\alpha_{s}(m(Z))=0.12$ using the 1-loop evolution with 5
flavors, and use the CTEQ set-5 parton distribution functions$^{10}$.
In the figure
we plot $R(\mu)$ as a function of $y$, at rapidity boost $\bar y$ = 0, and with
$m$= 10, 20, 30, 40 GeV and elastic scale $\mu$ = 0, 0.5, 2, 5, 10 GeV.
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\begin{center}{\baselineskip=12pt The ratio $R(\mu)$ as a function of
$y$, at $\bar y$ = 0.} \end{center}
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The rapid growth of $R(\mu)$ at the kinematical upper boundary in $y$ is due to
the
energy dependence of the pomeron trajectory$^{8,9,6}$, enhanced by the
scaling behavior at $x$ near 1 of the distribution functions
integrated over transverse momentum. The growth of $R(\mu)$ due to the
pomeron trajectory$^6$ only is more apparent in the plot with $m$= 10 GeV
where the largest kinematically accessible values of $y$ can be probed.
At $\mu = 0$, the octet exchange does not contribute to $R(\mu)$.
The value of $R(\mu = 0)$, multiplied by the survival probability $<S^2>$,
gives the probability of having a collision with a rapidity gap in
secondary particle production (2). Since $<S^2>$ is estimated in ref. 2
to be $\simeq$ 0.1 and in ref. 11 to be in the range of 0.05 to 0.2, we
expect that, at the Tevatron, a few tenths percent of events with
tagging jets will show rapidity gaps. The probability of finding a gap
increases with the rapidity interval between the tagging jets. This
prediction is peculiar of the radiative corrections to $R(\mu)$,
since $R(\mu)$ at the lowest order in $\alpha_S$ does not depend on $y$.

Since all of the analysis above is in the leading logarithmic approximation,
there is ambiguity in the choice of the proper scale in rapidity for
which this analysis is valid, and so the exact value of the
normalization and thus of $R(\mu)$ cannot be determined precisely.
However, the slope of the curves in the
asymptotic regime is free from this scale uncertainty and thus the
experimental measurement of the ratio $R(\mu)/R_{gap}$ in the large
rapidity-gap regime should give
us an unambiguous determination of the survival probability $<S^2>$.
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Work supported by the Department of Energy, contract DE-AC03-76SF00515.
The speaker wishes to thank Bj Bjorken, Jerry Blazey, Andrew Brandt,
Jeff Forden, Michael Peskin, Carl Schmidt, Michael Sotiropulos,
George Sterman and Harry Weerts for many stimulating discussions and
suggestions.

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