Pomeron intercept and slope: the QCD connection

Abstract

The ratio of intercept to slope of the Pomeron trajectory is derived in a phenomenological model based on a QCD approach to diffraction.

Comments: [Made some minor corrections] 11 pages, 2 figures; appeared in Proceedings of 12th International Conference of Elastic and Diffractive Scattering - Forward Physics and QCD (EDS07), DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 21-25 May 2007