RENORM tensor-Pomeron diffractive predictions

Abstract

Predictions of the elastic scattering, total-inetastic, and total proton-proton cross sections, based on a Regge theory inspired tensor-Pomeron implementation of the RENORM model for hadronic diffraction, are compared to the latest experimental measurements at the LHC. The measured cross sections are in good agreement within the experimental uncertainties of the data and the theoretical uncertainties of the model, reaching down to the ~1% level.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. Talk at Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, March 19-26, 2016. Misprints corrected in Table~1 and in text (pg 3 par 2 line 7)