Multigap diffraction cross sections. Problems in eikonal methods for the pomeron unitarization

Abstract

Large rapidity gap diffraction processes are considered in multi-channel eikonal models. It is shown that shadow corrections to over-fast rising contribution of the input supercritical pomeron (with $\alpha (0)>1$), originating from the pomeron rescatterings or, equivalently, accounting survival probability factor, do not solve the Finkelstein-Kajantie problem. Therefore, in our opinion, another methods of unitarization of supercritical pomeron should be developed.

8 pages, 6 figures. v2: Minor changes. Journal version. Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 101, 114003 (2020)