Towards a model which merges soft and hard high-energy pp interactions

Abstract

We seek a model which describes both the high-energy soft $pp$ data and has the perturbative QCD attributes expected in the low x, relatively low Q^2 domain. We describe the present status of this endeavour.

Comments: 5 pages, Talk presented by A.D. Martin at the Int. Workshop on Diffraction in High Energy Physics (Diffraction 2010), Otranto (Lecce), Italy, 10-15 Sept. 2010