Lessons from LHC elastic and diffractive data

Abstract

We discuss a model which gives a `global' description of the wide variety of high-energy elastic and diffractive data that are presently available, particularly from the LHC experiments. The model is based on only one pomeron pole, but includes multi-pomeron interactions. Significantly, the LHC measurements require that the model includes the transverse momentum dependence of the intermediate partons as a function of their rapidity, which results in a rapidity (or energy) dependence of the multi-pomeron vertices.

9 pages, 2 figures, To be published in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Particle Physics Phenomenology in memory of Alexei Kaidalov, Moscow, 21-25 July, 2013

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