The soft and the hard pomerons: elastic scattering and unitarisation
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✦ hep-ph
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elastichardscatteringappreciablycasecomponentcrossdata
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The hard pomeron component needed to reproduce small-x data seems to be present in elastic scattering at moderate energy. If this is the case, it is likely that the total cross section at the LHC will be appreciably larger than previously expected.
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