DIFFRACTIVE DISSOCIATION IN THE INTERACTING GLUON MODEL

We have extended the interacting gluon model to calculate diffractive mass spectra generated in hadronic collisions. We show that it is poss ible to treat both diffractive and nondiffractive events on the same f ooting, in terms of gluon-gluon collisions. A systematic analysis of a vailable data is performed. The energy dependence of diffractive mass spectra is addressed. They show a moderate narrowing at increasing ene rgies. Predictions for CERN LHC energies are presented.