Jet structure in high mass diffractive scattering

Abstract

We suggest that high-p_t jets may emerge from diffractively produced high mass states. Experimental measurements of such high-p_t structure would give new valuable insight about the nature of the exchanged pomeron, or pomeron-like object. With the assumption of an effective gluon distribution for the pomeron structure, we estimate the cross section for the process $\text{p}\text{̄}\text{+}\text{p}\text{→}\text{p}\text{̄}\text{+X}$, where X contains two high-p_t jets. Observable rates are found at SPS and Fermilab collider energies.