Research Article

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

Table 3

Visible cross sections for different cuts on the transverse momentum of the final state particles in < 5.2 for > 3 cut. Gap is defined as edge gap.

(mb)No cut > 100 MeV > 200 MeV > 500 MeV

5.52 5.60 5.62 5.80
3.42 3.79 4.10 5.14
8.94 9.39 9.72 10.94
0.03 0.06 0.11 4.38
8.97 9.45 9.83 15.32