The Phenomenology of Pomeron Enhancement

TL;DR

This paper investigates multi Pomeron interactions' role in high energy diffraction, proposing a perturbative QCD-based model that differs from existing approaches, with implications for predicting high energy cross sections and diffraction phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces a perturbative QCD motivated model for multi Pomeron interactions, contrasting with the Durham KMR group's parton model approach, and compares their theoretical predictions and data analysis.

Findings

Small fitted slope of Pomeron trajectory supports perturbative QCD use.

Model differences impact predictions for high energy diffraction and cross sections.

Comparison shows varying data fits and theoretical assumptions.

Abstract

Multi Pomeron interactions are the main source of high mass diffraction. Their role in high energy dynamics greatly influences the predictions for high energy cross sections and survival probabilities of hard diffraction channels, notably, diffractive Higgs production at the LHC. Our approach, is motivated by the fact that we obtain a very small value for the fitted slope of the Pomeron trajectory, which justifies the use of perturbative QCD for soft scattering. Our suggested model differs from the proposal of the Durham KMR group which is based on a parton model interpretation of the Reggeon calculus in the complex J-plane in which multi Pomeron vertices are arbitrarily defined. The theoretical input and predictions of the two groups, as well as their data analysis and procedures are compared and evaluated.