Exclusive Central Production and Diffractive W/Z Results from CDF II

TL;DR

This paper presents recent experimental results on exclusive and diffractive processes from the CDF II detector at Tevatron, including di-jet, di-photon, and W/Z production, with implications for LHC physics.

Contribution

It reports new measurements of exclusive production processes and discusses their significance for understanding diffraction and exclusive phenomena at high-energy colliders.

Findings

Observation of exclusive di-jet and di-photon production.

Preliminary results on exclusive charmonium and bottomonium photoproduction.

Insights into diffractive W/Z production at Tevatron.

Abstract

We report recently published results on central exclusive production of di-jets and di-photons, and exclusive QED production of e+e- pairs. In addition, we discuss preliminary results on exclusive photoproduction of charmonium and bottomonium, exclusive QED production of mu+mu- pairs, and single diffractive W/Z production. All the presented results were extracted from data collected by the CDF II detector from proton-antiproton collisions at a c.m.s. energy of 1.96 TeV. The implications of these results for the Large Hadron Collider are briefly examined.