# Selecting the diffractive events at the LHC energies

Source: [Selecting the diffractive events at the LHC energies](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa2b191e209131ce843ae8>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-24T13:58:14.573Z

Authors: K. Fialkowski

Published: 2011-12-13T15:11:40.000Z

## 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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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2913>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.2913.pdf>)