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arxiv: 0810.3560 · v1 · submitted 2008-10-20 · ✦ hep-ph

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Rapidity gap survival probability and total cross sections

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keywords crossprobabilityrapiditysurvivaltotalabsorptivecalculationsconsequence
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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.

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