Abstract
A comprehensive analysis of single diffraction dissociation data on from fixed target to collider energies reveals a striking breakdown of factorization, which does not affect the shape of the dependence of the differential cross sections. Phenomenologically, this result can be obtained by postulating a scaling law for hadronic diffraction, which is embedded in the hypothesis of Pomeron flux renormalization introduced to unitarize the triple-Pomeron amplitude.
- Received 16 October 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.114017
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