https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4540-8
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Probing diffractive production of gauge bosons at forward rapidities
1
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-972, Brazil
2
Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, CEP 96010-900, Brazil
* e-mail: victor.goncalves@thep.lu.se
Received:
11
October
2016
Accepted:
28
November
2016
Published online:
16
December
2016
Gauge boson production at forward rapidities in single diffractive events at the LHC is investigated considering pp collisions at 
8 and 13 TeV. The impact of gap survival effects is analysed using two different models for the soft rescattering contributions. We demonstrate that using the forward shower counter Project at LHCb–HERSCHEL, together with the Vertex Locator–VELO, it is possible to discriminate diffractive production of the gauge bosons 
and 
from the non-diffractive processes and studies of the Pomeron structure and diffraction phenomenology are feasible. Moreover, we show that the analysis of this process can be useful to constrain the modelling of the gap survival effects.
© The Author(s), 2016
