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Gluon propagator in diffractive scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

In this work, we perform a comparison of the employ of distinct gluon propagators with the experimental data in diffractive processes, pppp elastic scattering and light meson photo-production. The gluon propagators are calculated through non-perturbative methods, being justified their use in this class of events, due to the smallness of the momentum transfer. Our results are not able to select the best choice for the modified gluon propagator among the analyzed ones, showing that the application of this procedure in this class of high energy processes, although giving a reasonable fit to the experimental data, should be taken with same caution.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0607128,
  title  = {Gluon propagator in diffractive scattering},
  author = {M. B. Gay Ducati and W. K. Sauter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0607128},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A (uses ws-ijmpa.cls). Authors corrected