10–15 Sept 2012
Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Predictions of diffractive cross sections in proton-proton collisions

14 Sept 2012, 09:10
20m
Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote

Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote

Canary Islands (Spain)
Talk at plenary session Diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions Diffraction in Hadron-Hadron Collisions (II)

Speaker

Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)

Summary

Predictions for diffractive proton-proton cross sections at high energies are presented in terms of unitarized expressions and compared with results from the LHC and cosmic ray experiments. An implementation in PYTHIA8, which includes single diffraction, double diffraction and central diffraction is also presented and predictions are compared with features of available LHC results.

Primary author

Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)

Presentation materials