Proton Diffraction Dissociation and Unitarity

Abstract

It is shown that the dipole pomeron model of single diffraction dissociation -- contrary to the case of the supercritical pomeron -- is compatible with the inequality $\sigma^{SD}\leq\sigma^{tot}$, imposed by unitarity, provided the triple pomeron coupling satisfies certain conditions. With the adopted approximation the model considered as a parcticular solution of the triple pomeron decoupling problem. Explicit forms of such a coupling and a qualitative comparison with the experimental data on single DD are presented. The modified factorization properties of the model are also discussed.