Rapidity gap survival probability and total cross sections
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-10-21 v1
Abstract
We discuss recent calculations of the survival probability of the large rapidity gaps in exclusive processes of the type pp --> p+A+p at high energies. Absorptive or screening effects are important, and one consequence is that the total cross section at the LHC is predicted to be only about 90 mb.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.3560,
title = {Rapidity gap survival probability and total cross sections},
author = {A. D. Martin and V. A. Khoze and M. G. Ryskin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3560},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures; Based on a talk by A.D. Martin at the CERN - DESY Workshop "HERA and the LHC", 26 - 30 May 2008