# POMERON FLUX RENORMALIZATION IN SOFT AND HARD DIFFRACTION

Source: [POMERON FLUX RENORMALIZATION IN SOFT AND HARD DIFFRACTION](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa295e1e209131ce83355d>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-24T12:50:08.427Z

Authors: K. Goulianos

Published: 1995-02-20T22:47:24.000Z

## Abstract

While the main features of elastic, diffractive and total cross sections are described well by Regge theory, the measured rise of the proton-(anti)proton single diffraction dissociation cross section with energy is considerably smaller than the theoretical prediction based on factorization and a constant triple-pomeron coupling. The observed energy dependence is obtained by renormalizing the pomeron flux "carried" by a nucleon to unity. Double diffraction and double pomeron exchange cross sections are reevaluated and compared to data, and a new interpretation of hard diffraction results emerges in which the hard pomeron obeys the momentum sum rule.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9502356>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9502356.pdf>)