Light hadron production in inclusive pp-scattering at LHC

TL;DR

This paper models light meson production in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies using reggeon phenomenology with a supercritical Pomeron, successfully explaining low-energy data and predicting distributions at high energies.

Contribution

It introduces a reggeon-based model incorporating three reggeon particles to describe light meson production across energy scales.

Findings

Low-energy data are well explained by the model.

Predicted rapidity and pseudorapidity distributions at LHC energies.

Model provides a unified description across different energies.

Abstract

The inclusive production of light mesons in pp-scattering is considered in the framework of reggeon phenomenology with supercritical Pomeron. Available low-energy data can be explained with three reggeon particles taken into account. With the obtained results rapidity and pseudorapidity distributions for light-meson production at LHC energies are predicted.