DOI 10.1007/s100520000494
Soft diffraction and the elastic slope at Tevatron
and LHC energies: a multi-Pomeron approach
V.A. Khoze1 - A.D. Martin1 - M.G. Ryskin1,2
1 Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
2 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, 188350, Russia
Received: 1 August 2000 / Published online: 27 October 2000 - © Springer-Verlag 2000
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.
Copyright Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 2000
