Research Article
Large Rapidity Gap Method to Select Soft Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC
Table 1
PYTHIA 8 cross sections at
= 7 TeV.
| | Event class | Cross section |
| | Single diffractive dissociation (SDD) | 13.7 | | Double diffractive dissociation (DDD) | 9.3 | | Diffractive dissociation (SDD + DDD) | 22.9 | | Nondiffractive (ND) | 48.5 |
| | Minimum bias (SDD + DDD + ND) | 71.4 |
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