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Total and diffractive cross sections in enhanced Pomeron scheme
For the first time, a systematic analysis of the high energy behavior of
total and diffractive proton-proton cross sections is performed within the
Reggeon Field Theory framework, based on the resummation of all significant
contributions of enhanced Pomeron diagrams to all orders with respect to the
triple-Pomeron coupling. The importance of different classes of enhanced graphs
is investigated and it is demonstrated that absorptive corrections due to
"net"-like enhanced diagrams and due to Pomeron "loops" are both significant
and none of those classes can be neglected at high energies. A comparison with
other approaches based on partial resummations of enhanced diagrams is
performed. In particular, important differences are found concerning the
predicted high energy behavior of total and single high mass diffraction
proton-proton cross sections, with our values of at
TeV being some % higher and with the energy rise of
saturating well below the LHC energy. The main
causes for those differences are analyzed and explained
Minimal Obstructions for Partial Representations of Interval Graphs
Interval graphs are intersection graphs of closed intervals. A generalization
of recognition called partial representation extension was introduced recently.
The input gives an interval graph with a partial representation specifying some
pre-drawn intervals. We ask whether the remaining intervals can be added to
create an extending representation. Two linear-time algorithms are known for
solving this problem.
In this paper, we characterize the minimal obstructions which make partial
representations non-extendible. This generalizes Lekkerkerker and Boland's
characterization of the minimal forbidden induced subgraphs of interval graphs.
Each minimal obstruction consists of a forbidden induced subgraph together with
at most four pre-drawn intervals. A Helly-type result follows: A partial
representation is extendible if and only if every quadruple of pre-drawn
intervals is extendible by itself. Our characterization leads to a linear-time
certifying algorithm for partial representation extension
Diffractive dissociation including pomeron loops in zero transverse dimensions
We have recently studied the QCD pomeron loop evolution equations in zero
transverse dimensions [Shoshi:2005pf]. Using the techniques developed in
[Shoshi:2005pf] together with the AGK cutting rules, we present a calculation
of single, double and central diffractive cross sections (for large diffractive
masses and large rapidity gaps) in zero transverse dimensions in which all
dominant pomeron loop graphs are consistently summed. We find that the
diffractive cross sections unitarise at asymptotic energies and that they are
suppressed by powers of alpha_s. Our calculation is expected to expose some of
the diffractive physics in hadron-hadron collisions at high energy.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures; numerous explanations added, matches the
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Monte Carlo treatment of hadronic interactions in enhanced Pomeron scheme: I. QGSJET-II model
The construction of a Monte Carlo generator for high energy hadronic and
nuclear collisions is discussed in detail. Interactions are treated in the
framework of the Reggeon Field Theory, taking into consideration enhanced
Pomeron diagrams which are resummed to all orders in the triple-Pomeron
coupling. Soft and "semihard" contributions to the underlying parton dynamics
are accounted for within the "semihard Pomeron" approach. The structure of cut
enhanced diagrams is analyzed; they are regrouped into a number of subclasses
characterized by positively defined contributions which define partial weights
for various "macro-configurations" of hadronic final states. An iterative
procedure for a Monte Carlo generation of the structure of final states is
described. The model results for hadronic cross sections and for particle
production are compared to experimental data
Model Checking Lower Bounds for Simple Graphs
A well-known result by Frick and Grohe shows that deciding FO logic on trees
involves a parameter dependence that is a tower of exponentials. Though this
lower bound is tight for Courcelle's theorem, it has been evaded by a series of
recent meta-theorems for other graph classes. Here we provide some additional
non-elementary lower bound results, which are in some senses stronger. Our goal
is to explain common traits in these recent meta-theorems and identify barriers
to further progress. More specifically, first, we show that on the class of
threshold graphs, and therefore also on any union and complement-closed class,
there is no model-checking algorithm with elementary parameter dependence even
for FO logic. Second, we show that there is no model-checking algorithm with
elementary parameter dependence for MSO logic even restricted to paths (or
equivalently to unary strings), unless E=NE. As a corollary, we resolve an open
problem on the complexity of MSO model-checking on graphs of bounded max-leaf
number. Finally, we look at MSO on the class of colored trees of depth d. We
show that, assuming the ETH, for every fixed d>=1 at least d+1 levels of
exponentiation are necessary for this problem, thus showing that the (d+1)-fold
exponential algorithm recently given by Gajarsk\`{y} and Hlin\u{e}n\`{y} is
essentially optimal
Helicity amplitudes for high-energy scattering
We present a prescription to calculate manifestly gauge invariant tree-level
helicity amplitudes for arbitrary scattering processes with off-shell
initial-state gluons within the kinematics of high-energy scattering. We show
that it is equivalent to Lipatov's effective action approach, and show its
computational potential through numerical calculations for scattering processes
with several particles in the final state.Comment: 27 pages, reference adde
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