2009/11/18 by Richard C. Brower, Richard Brower, Marko Djurić +5
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Optical Coatings and Gratings #Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0911.3463
7 pages, 3 figures; presented at International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, EDS'09, CERN, July 3, 2009
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At high energies, elastic hadronic cross sections are believed to be dominated by vacuum exchange. In leading order of the leading 1/Nc expansion this exchange process has been identified as the BFKL \em Pomeron or its strong AdS dual the closed string graviton \citeBrower:2006ea. However difference of particle anti-particle cross sections are given by a so-called \em Odderon carrying C = -1 quantum numbers identified in weak coupling with odd numbers of exchanged gluons. Here we show that the dual description associates this with the Neveu-Schwartz (Bμν) sector of closed string theory. We also discuss the extension of the strong coupling treatment to central diffractive Higgs production at LHC.