Speaker
Prof.
Alan Martin
(IPPP, Durham)
Description
We discuss a model which gives 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 includes multi-pomeron interactions. Significantly, the LHC measurements require that the model includes the transverse momentum dependence of the intermediate partons as a function of their rapidity, which results in a rapidity (or energy) dependence of the multi-pomeron vertices. We may call this the k_t(s) effect.
Primary author
Prof.
Alan Martin
(IPPP, Durham)
Co-authors
Prof.
Mikhail Ryskin
(PNPI, St. Petersburg)
Prof.
Valery Khoze
(IPPP, Durham)
