Measurement of differential cross sections for single diffractive dissociation in $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 8 TeV pp collisions using the ATLAS ALFA spectrometer

A dedicated sample of Large Hadron Collider proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energy \sqrt{s}=8TeV is used to study inclusive single diffractive dissociation, pp \rightarrow Xp The intact final-state proton is reconstructed in the ATLAS ALFA forward spectrometer, while charged particles from the dissociated system Xare measured in the central detector components. The fiducial range of the measurement is $-4.0 < \log_{10}...