Soft and diffractive scattering with the cluster model in Herwig

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We present a new model for soft interactions in the event-generator Herwig.

• The model consists of two components.
• One to model diffractive final states on the basis of the cluster hadronization model and a second component that addresses soft multiple interactions as multiple particle production in multi- peripheral kinematics.
• We present much improved results for minimum-bias measurements at various LHC energies.