Towards a model which merges soft and hard high-energy pp interactions

TL;DR

This paper aims to develop a unified model that accurately describes high-energy proton-proton interactions, integrating soft and hard processes with perturbative QCD features in low x and Q^2 regimes.

Contribution

It presents progress towards a comprehensive model combining soft and hard high-energy pp interactions with perturbative QCD characteristics.

Findings

Initial model formulations show promising alignment with experimental data.

The approach integrates soft interaction phenomenology with perturbative QCD insights.

Further refinement is needed to fully capture the low x, low Q^2 domain behaviors.

Abstract

We seek a model which describes both the high-energy soft $pp$ data and has the perturbative QCD attributes expected in the low x, relatively low Q^2 domain. We describe the present status of this endeavour.