Soft data and the hard pomeron

Abstract

We show that the introduction of an additional, hard, singularity in soft forward amplitudes enables one to improve considerably the fits using a simple-pole structure for the soft pomeron.

4 pages, contribution to "QCD 04", 11th International QCD Conference, 5-10th July 2004, Montpellier (France)

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• The soft and the hard pomerons in hadron elastic scattering at small t