Investigating diffractive W production in hadron-hadron collisions at high energies

TL;DR

This paper calculates the production of W bosons in high-energy hadron collisions considering diffraction effects, matching current Tevatron data and providing predictions for the LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a model incorporating Regge factorization and multiple Pomeron exchanges to predict diffractive W production at high energies.

Findings

Agreement with Tevatron data on diffractive to non-diffractive W ratio

Predictions for W production at LHC energies

Validation of Regge-based models for diffractive processes

Abstract

We compute the hard diffractive hadroproduction of bosons W at high energies using Regge factorization and taking into account multiple Pomeron exchange corrections. The ratio of diffractive to non-diffractive W production agrees with the current Tevatron data and a prediction for the LHC is presented.