Generalized upper bound for inelastic diffraction

Abstract

For the inelastic diffraction, we obtain an upper bound valid in the whole range of the elastic scattering amplitude variation allowed by unitarity. We discuss the energy dependence of the inelastic diffractive cross-section on the base of this bound and recent LHC data.

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures, v3: matches journal version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1503.03612