Angular structure of diffraction dissociation at LHC

Abstract

We consider angular dependence of the diffractive dissociation processes at high energies. It appeared that angular dependence of the diffractive dissociation has no dip and bump structure at the LHC energies and would show a smooth power-like decrease with $t$. The normalized differential cross-section has a scaling behavior and depends on the ratio $-t/M^2$ only. These results reflect general trends of unitarity limitations at high energies and are realized within the chiral quark model with unitarization performed through the generalized reaction matrix.

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