Diffraction : Recent Results and Implications for LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent findings in diffraction physics, focusing on the implications of diffractive parton densities from HERA data for exclusive events at the Tevatron and prospects for the LHC.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of the impact of gluon density uncertainties on diffractive event observations and discusses future prospects for diffractive studies at the LHC.

Findings

Gluon density uncertainties significantly affect exclusive event measurements.

Analysis of dijet mass fraction data from CDF.

Prospects for diffractive physics at the LHC are outlined.

Abstract

With the knowledge of diffractive parton densities extracted from HERA data, we discuss the observation of exclusive events using the dijet mass fraction as measured by the CDF collaboration at the Tevatron. In particular the impact of the gluon density uncertainty is analysed. Some prospects are given for diffractive physics at the LHC.