Research Article

Large Rapidity Gap Method to Select Soft Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC

Table 2

Visible cross sections for different cuts. A cut of > 200 MeV is applied for all final state particles in < 5.2 and the gap is defined as edge gap.

(mb) > 2.5 > 3.0 > 3.5 > 4.0

6.13 5.62 5.16 4.72
4.48 4.10 3.72 3.37
10.61 9.72 8.88 8.09
0.22 0.11 0.05 0.03
10.83 9.83 8.93 8.12