Narrow Results

After the final analyses of the H1 and ZEUS collaborations for the diffractive photoproduction of dijets have appeared, we have recalculated these cross sections in next-to-leading order (NLO) of perturbative QCD to see whether they can be interpreted consistently. The results of these calculations are compared to the data of both collaborations. We find that at NLO the cross sections disagree with the data, showing that factorization breaking occurs at this order. If direct and resolved contributions are both suppressed by the same amount, the global suppression factor depends on the transverse-energy cut and is 0.42 for the H1 and 0.71 for the ZEUS analysis. However, by suppressing only the resolved contribution by a factor of approximately three, also reasonably good agreement with all the data is found. The size of the factorization breaking effects for resolved photons agrees with absorptive-model predictions.

We have recently presented a Regge description of ππ total cross sections valid above 1.4 GeV, consistent with the few existing experiments, factorization and crossing symmetry. In this note we show how it also describes a further large data sample obtained from an analysis of experiments on π^±p→XΔ⁺⁺ and π^±n→Xp.

We estimate final state interactions in the B-meson decays into two pions by the Regge model. We consider Pomeron exchange and the leading Regge trajectories that can relate intermediate particles to the final state. In some cases, most notably B→π⁰π⁰ and B→π⁺π^-, the effect is relevant and produces a better agreement between theory and experiment.

We discuss the low-mass enhancement effect in the baryon–antibaryon invariant mass in three-body baryonic B decays using final state interactions in the framework of Regge theory. We show that the rescattering between baryonic pair can reproduce the observed mass spectrum.

We present a model that realizes both resonance-Regge (Veneziano) and parton–hadron (Bloom–Gilman) duality. We first review the features of the Veneziano model and we discuss how parton–hadron duality appears in the Bloom–Gilman model. Then we review limitations of the Veneziano model, namely that the zero-width resonances in the Veneziano model violate unitarity and Mandelstam analyticity. We discuss how such problems are alleviated in models that construct dual amplitudes with Mandelstam analyticity (so-called DAMA models). We then introduce a modified DAMA model, and we discuss its properties. We present a pedagogical model for dual amplitudes and we construct the nucleon structure function F₂(x, Q²). We explicitly show that the resulting structure function realizes both Veneziano and Bloom–Gilman duality.

The processes of dielectron production in deuteron–proton collisions at intermediate incident deuteron beam energies are analyzed in the spectator model within the one-pion exchange reggeized approach. We focus mainly on the momentum and angle distributions of the proton-spectator and the proton emitted in quasi-free NN processes at small angles in the laboratory frame. It is shown that the inclusion of many channels in quasi-free NN interaction allows us to describe the HADES data quite satisfactorily at incident deuteron kinetic energies of about 2.5 GeV.

We analyze the recent results of next-to-next-to-leading (NNLO) singlet BFKL eigenvalue in $N=4$ SYM written in terms of harmonic sums. The nested harmonic sums building known NNLO BFKL eigenvalue for specific values of the conformal spin have poles at negative integers. We sort the harmonic sums according to the complexity with respect to their weight and depth and use their pole decomposition in terms of the reflection identities to find the most complicated terms of NNLO BFKL eigenvalue for an arbitrary value of the conformal spin. The obtained result is compatible with the Bethe–Salpeter approach to the BFKL evolution.

At high energies the Pomeron plays a crucial part in describing the soft interactions. In the light of LHC (Large Hadron Collider) data we perform a detailed analysis of proton-proton ($pp$) and antiproton-proton ($\bar{p}p$) forward scattering data in order to determine the intercept and the slope of the soft Pomeron trajectory. This analysis is performed based on Regge theory using Born-level amplitudes. We investigate the role of the proton-Pomeron vertex form and of the nearest $t$-channel singularity. We give predictions for the total cross section and the ratio of the real part to the imaginary part of the elastic amplitude in $pp$ collisions at LHC and cosmic-ray energies.