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The Landshoff-Nachtmann Pomeron on the Lattice

D. S. Henty, C. Parrinello, D. G. Richards

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9511031

Abstract

We investigate the Landshoff-Nachtmann two-gluon-exchange model of the Pomeron using gluon propagators computed in the Landau gauge within quenched lattice QCD calculations. We first determine an effective gluon-quark coupling by constraining the Pomeron-quark coupling to its phenomenological value β0 = 2\, -1. We then provide predictions for a variety of diffractive processes. As the propagators have been evaluated entirely from QCD first principles (although in the quenched approximation), our results provide a consistency check of the Landshoff-Nachtmann model. We address the issue of the possible gauge-dependence of our results, which will be the object of a future study.

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