| Seminar Date: | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | KAVLI 3rd Floor Conference Room |
| Abstract: | The CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron has produced a wealth of QCD physics results. While achieving an unprecedented level of precision for many QCD observables, the CDF collaboration also developed a very extensive program of soft QCD studies. Soft high energy interactions are very important in pp collisions. These types of events are dominant by many orders of magnitude while significant part of them are of a diffractive origin. The CDF collaboration contributed significantly to the understanding of the diffractive processes by studying a wide variety of observables at different center-of-mass energies. These results and new methodology developed at CDF provide an important blueprint for similar LHC analyses, while constraining phenomenological models describing these processes. This presentation will review the most relevant soft QCD analyses at CDF and discuss what new information might be still gained from the Tevatron data set. |
| Speaker: | Christina Mesropian - Rockefeller University |
| Presentation: | Presentation on 11/27/2012 |