The soft and the hard pomerons: elastic scattering and unitarisation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-10-30 v1
Abstract
The hard pomeron component needed to reproduce small-x data seems to be present in elastic scattering at moderate energy. If this is the case, it is likely that the total cross section at the LHC will be appreciably larger than previously expected.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.5391,
title = {The soft and the hard pomerons: elastic scattering and unitarisation},
author = {J. R. Cudell and A. Lengyel and E. Martynov and O. V. Selyugin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5391},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk given at 12th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering: Forward Physics and QCD, Hamburg, DESY, Germany, 21-25 May 2007