An estimation of single and double diffractive heavy flavour production in hadron-hadron colliders

TL;DR

This paper provides a phenomenological analysis of heavy flavor diffractive production in hadron colliders, using Regge factorization and recent experimental data, with predictions for LHC measurements.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive model incorporating recent diffractive parton densities and multiple-Pomeron corrections to predict heavy flavor diffractive cross sections.

Findings

Predictions align with existing charm and beauty data

Provides estimates for top quark diffractive production at LHC

Incorporates rapidity gap survival probability in calculations

Abstract

Results from a phenomenological analysis for diffractive hadroproduction of heavy flavors at high energies are reported. Diffractive production of charm, bottom and top are calculated using Regge factorization, taking into account recent experimental determination of the diffractive parton density functions in Pomeron by the H1 Collaboration at DESY-HERA. In addition, multiple-Pomeron corrections are considered through the rapidity gap survival probability factor. We give numerical predictions for single diffractive as well as double Pomeron exchange (DPE) cross sections, which agree with the available data for diffractive production of charm and beauty. We make estimates which could be compared to future measurements at the LHC.