Soft diffraction at the LHC: a partonic interpretation

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We present a `new generation' model for high energy proton-proton `soft' interactions.

• It allows for a full set of multi-Pomeron vertices, as well as including multichannel eikonal scattering.
• It describes the behaviour of the proton-proton total, sigma(total), and elastic dsigma(el)/dt, cross sections together with those for low and high mass proton dissociation.
• Although the model contains a comprehensive set of multi-Pomeron diagrams, it has a simple partonic interpretation.