NLO Vertex for a Forward Jet plus a Rapidity Gap at High Energies

Abstract

We present the calculation of the forward jet vertex associated to a rapidity gap (coupling of a hard pomeron to the jet) in the BFKL formalism at next-to-leading order (NLO). Real emission contributions are computed via Lipatov's effective action. The NLO jet vertex turns out to be finite within collinear factorization and allows, together with the NLO non-forward gluon Green's function, to perform NLO studies of jet production in diffractive events (e.g. Mueller-Tang dijets).

Comments: 4 pages, Proceedings of DIFFRACTION 2014 (Primošten, Croatia, September 2014)