Soft processes at the LHC, I: Multi-component model
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-03-24 v2
Abstract
We emphasize the sizeable effects of absorption on high-energy `soft' processes, and, hence, the necessity to include multi-Pomeron-Pomeron interactions in the usual multi-channel eikonal description. We present a model which includes a complete set of the multi-Pomeron vertices and which accounts for the diffusion in both, the impact parameter and ln(k_t), of the parton during its evolution in rapidity. We tune the model to the available data for soft processes in the CERN-ISR to Tevatron energy range. We make predictions for `soft' observables at the LHC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.2407,
title = {Soft processes at the LHC, I: Multi-component model},
author = {M. G. Ryskin and A. D. Martin and V. A. Khoze},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2407},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
29 pages, 13 figures, version to be published in EPJC