Soft diffraction and the elastic slope at Tevatron and LHC energies: a multi-Pomeron approach
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-07-09 v2
Abstract
We present a formalism for high energy soft processes, mediated by Pomerons, which embodies pion-loop insertions in the Pomeron trajectory, rescattering effects via a two-channel eikonal and high-mass diffractive dissociation. It describes all the main features of the data throughout the ISR to Tevatron energy interval. We give predictions for soft diffractive phenomena at the LHC energy, and we calculate the different survival probabilities of rapidity gaps which occur in various diffractive processes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0007359,
title = {Soft diffraction and the elastic slope at Tevatron and LHC energies: a multi-Pomeron approach},
author = {V. A. Khoze and A. D. Martin and M. G. Ryskin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0007359},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
32 pages, 12 figures, LaTeX; version to be published in EPJC, minor changes to the text, references and footnotes