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Pomeron physics: an update

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Key issues in pomeron physics include whether the hard and soft pomerons are distinct objects, and whether the hard pomeron is already present in amplitudes at Q2=0Q^2=0. It is urgent to learn how to combine perturbative and nonperturbative concepts, and to construct a sound theory of perturbative evolution at small xx. Other questions are whether screening corrections are small, and gap survival probabilities large. Finally, do diffractive processes present a good way to discover the Higgs?

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0010315,
  title  = {Pomeron physics: an update},
  author = {P V Landshoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0010315},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 23 figures embedded with epsf Summary talk at Diffraction2000, Calabria, September 2000