We study a model for inclusive central particle production in pp and pp reactions based on parton model concepts and lowest-order QCD. In this picture, two-gluon fusion creates a heavy excited state (fireball) whose decay (described by statistical considerations) leads to the creation of light hadrons with low transverse momenta. Agreement with experimental data is found to be good. This first model is then embedded (providing energy dependence) in a two-component eikonal model used to study elastic diffraction and unifying parton model and impact parameter formulations. We discuss the inclusion of a real part for the elastic amplitude, the removal of multiple diffraction zeros and the behavior of this second model up to the multi-TeV energy range (the Froissart bound is not saturated). We find excellent agreement with a large body of experimental data.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.71998 |
| Date | January 1985 |
| Creators | L'Heureux, Pierre |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000219539, proquestno: AAINL20861, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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