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Selecting the diffractive events at the LHC energies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-02-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The PYTHIA 8 generator is used to estimate the percentage of non-diffractive and diffractive events at the LHC energies. It is shown that a simple condition of the absence of charged hadrons in the central pseudorapidity region is sufficient to remove almost all non-diffractive events. This opens the way to investigate diffraction without waiting for the future specialized detectors.

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@article{arxiv.1112.2913,
  title  = {Selecting the diffractive events at the LHC energies},
  author = {K. Fialkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.2913},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages

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