Diffraction Production in a Soft Interaction Model: Mass Distributions

TL;DR

This paper introduces a method within the GLM soft interaction model to calculate diffractive mass distributions in hadron-hadron scattering, utilizing Gribov's partonic interpretation and analogies with deep-inelastic scattering, with predictions for LHC energies.

Contribution

The paper develops a novel procedure for calculating diffractive mass distributions based on a partonic interpretation of the Pomeron within the GLM model.

Findings

Predicted mass distributions for LHC energies.

Established a connection between Pomeron-quark and Pomeron-gluon sectors.

Provided a new framework for diffractive mass calculations.

Abstract

In the framework of our model (GLM) for soft interaction with $\alpha'_{\pom}(0)=0$, we propose a procedure based on Gribov's partonic interpretation of the Pomeron, which enables one to calculate the diffractive mass distributions in hadron-hadron scattering. Using the analogy with deep-inelastic scattering, we associate the Pomeron-quark interaction with the Good-Walker sector of the hadron-hadron scattering, and the Pomeron-gluon sector with the t-channel Pomeron interactions. We present predicted mass distributions for the LHC energies