https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2756-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
High-energy elastic and diffractive cross sections
1
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
2
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, 188300, Russia
* e-mail: a.d.martin@durham.ac.uk
Received:
16
December
2013
Accepted:
21
January
2014
Published online:
12
February
2014
We present a ‘global’ description of the wide variety of high-energy elastic and diffractive data that are presently available, particularly from the LHC experiments. The model is based on only one pomeron pole, but it includes multi-pomeron interactions and, significantly, it includes the transverse momentum dependence of intermediate partons as a function of their rapidity, which provides the rapidity dependence of the multi-pomeron vertices. We give predictions for the diffractive observables at LHC energies.
© The Author(s), 2014
