I just finished reading a very nice review article, "Two gaps make a high-temperature superconductor?" From a broad range of experimental data for several classes of cuprates they produce this figure:

The article is a short review of experimental data and does not consider how this compares to different theories of the pseudogap in the cuprates.
I may be missing something but it seems to me that this physics was actually predicted twenty years ago in a paper by Zhang, Gros, Rice, and Shiba. The emergence of these two d-wave gaps is described by a resonating valence bond wave function. Below is Figure 6 of the paper:


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