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Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 734–739 (1996)

Jet Production via Strongly Interacting Color-Singlet Exchange in pp̅ Collisions

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S. Abachi et al. (D0 Collaboration)
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Received 20 September 1995; published in the issue dated 29 January 1996

A study of the particle multiplicity between jets with large rapidity separation has been performed using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̅ Collider operating at s = 1.8TeV. A significant excess of low-multiplicity events is observed above the expectation for color-exchange processes. The measured fractional excess is 1.07±0.10(stat)-0.13+0.25(syst)%, which is consistent with a strongly interacting color-singlet (colorless) exchange process and cannot be explained by electroweak exchange alone. A lower limit of 0.80% (95% C.L.) is obtained on the fraction of dijet events with color-singlet exchange, independent of the rapidity gap survival probability.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.734
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.734
PACS:
13.87.Fh, 12.38.Qk, 13.85.Hd