Research Article

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

Table 5

Visible cross sections for different cuts on the transverse momentum of the final state particles in < 5.2 for > 4 cut. Gap is defined as central gap.

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

0.002 0.001 0.003 0.18
0.95 0.92 0.82 0.44
0.95 0.92 0.82 0.62
0.007 0.01 0.04 1.99
0.96 0.93 0.86 2.61