The Peripheral Impact Parameter Description of Inelastic Diffraction Dissociation at Very High-Energies

Aug, 1974
11 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 86 (1975) 285-295
  • Published: 1975
Report number:
  • CERN/D.Ph.II/PHYS 74-34,
  • CERN-TH-1920

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A simple peripheral impact parameter model for inelastic diffraction dissociation is used to describe both the very high energy exclusive process pp → p π + n and the inclusive process pp → pX. It is found that the width of the impact parameter profile has a small dependence on s / M 2 which is compatible with a Regge shrinkage factor of the form ( s / M 2 ) 0.17 t . It is suggested that the profile is independent of the number of particles produced, and that the non-vanishing of the triple pomeron coupling and the sharp t -behaviour of the inclusive distributions at small M 2 values is the generalization of the slope-mass correlation effect observed in exclusive processes.