Soft interactions at high energies: QCD motivated approach

TL;DR

This paper introduces a QCD-inspired theoretical framework for high energy soft interactions that accurately models experimental data and predicts a very low survival probability for diffractive Higgs production at the LHC.

Contribution

It presents a novel QCD motivated approach to describe soft interactions and incorporates corrections affecting diffractive Higgs production predictions.

Findings

Successfully describes total, elastic, and diffraction cross sections

Predicts survival probability for diffractive Higgs production is less than 1%

Analyzes effects of threshold and semi-enhanced diagram corrections

Abstract

We propose a QCD motivated theoretical approach to high energy soft interactions, which successfully describes the experimental data on total, elastic and diffraction cross sections. We predict that the survival probability for the diffractive Higgs production at the LHC energy is small (less than 1%), and investigate the influence of suggested corrections e.g. threshhold effects and semi-enhanced diagrams, on this value.