How many partons can you crash at once?

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In principle, an infinite number.
 
I'm not even sure if that number is well-defined without requiring some minimal momentum transfer. Every time I saw discussions of double parton interactions the processes had some threshold (like J/Psi production, or particles above some minimal pT).
 

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