Dijet Production by Color-Singlet Exchange at the Fermilab Tevatron

Abstract

We report a new measurement of dijet production by color-singlet exchange in $p\overline{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}1.8\mathrm{TeV}$ at the Fermilab Tevatron. In a sample of events with two jets of transverse energy ${E}_{T}^{\mathrm{jet}}>20\mathrm{GeV}$, pseudorapidity in the range $1.8<|{\ensuremath{\eta}}^{\mathrm{jet}}|<3.5$, and ${\ensuremath{\eta}}_{1}{\ensuremath{\eta}}_{2}<0$, we find that a fraction $R\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}[1.13\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.12(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.11(\mathrm{syst})]%$ has a pseudorapidity gap within $|\ensuremath{\eta}|<1$ between the jets that can be attributed to color-singlet exchnage. The fraction $R$ shows no significant dependence on ${E}_{T}^{\mathrm{jet}}$ or on the pseudorapidity separation between the jets.