arXiv:0810.3560·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Rapidity gap survival probability and total cross sections
A.D. Martin🇬🇧 · V.A. Khoze🇬🇧 · M.G. Ryskin🇬🇧
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.
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