Diffractive dissociation in proton-nucleus collisions at collider energies
Abstract
The cross section for the nuclear diffractive dissociation in proton-lead collisions at the LHC is estimated. Based on the current theoretical uncertainties for the single (target) diffactive cross section in hadron-hadron reactions one obtains sigmaSD(5.02 TeV) = 19.67 5.41 mb and sigmaSD(8.8 TeV) = 18.76 5.77 mb, respectively. The invariant mass MX for the reaction pPb -> pX is also analyzed. Discussion is performed on the main theoretical uncertainties associated to the calculations.
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