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An approach to inelastic diffraction based on the concept of equivalence of diffractive states is presented. Intermediate transitions inside the equivalence class yield a multi-channel correction which can be factorized producing the diffraction amplitude in the form NΔt, to be taken in the Bjorken-like ‘diffractive limit’: N → ∞, Δt → 0 such that NΔt is finite. We analyse the contribution of inelastic diffraction to elastic scattering of elementary hadrons and light nuclei, in the range of c.m. energy √s= 20 — 1800 GeV. This is done in the framework of a semi-phenomenological model where the diffractive states are built of a two-hadron bulk and some quanta (‘diffractons’) describing diffractive excitations. The single minimum observed experimentally is explained as an interference effect due to scattering off ‘diffractons’, present inside the hadronic bulk.
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Małecki, A.R. (2003). Multiparticle Dynamics of Hadron Diffraction. In: Fiore, R., Jenkovszky, L.L., Kotsky, M.I., Magas, V.K., Papa, A. (eds) DIFFRACTION 2002: Interpretation of the New Diffractive Phenomena in Quantum Chromodynamics and in the S-Matrix Theory. NATO Science Series, vol 101. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0177-9_18
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