Research Article

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

Table 4

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 central gap.

(mb) > 2.5 > 3.0 > 3.5 > 4.0

0.08 0.03 0.01 0.003
1.15 1.04 0.93 0.82
1.23 1.07 0.94 0.82
0.66 0.22 0.08 0.04
1.89 1.29 1.02 0.86