Hadron production at the LHC: Any indication of new phenomena

Abstract

We confront soft Pomeron and gluon saturation models with the first LHC data on inclusive hadron production. We claim that while the first type of models are not able to describe some part of the LHC data, the Colour-Glass-Condensate (gluon saturation) approach gives an adequate description of the data. Here, we compare our published predictions with the recently available 7 TeV data. We firmly believe that if further experimental measurements confirm that the gluon saturation works, it will be a major discovery.

8 pages, 12 figure, Based on two talks given by authors at Diffraction 2010, Otranto (Lecce), Italy, September 10-15, 2010

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