Consequences of t-channel unitarity for the interaction of real and virtual photons at high energies

Martynov, E.; Cudell, J. R.; Soyez, G.

Consequences of t-channel unitarity for the interaction of real and virtual photons at high energies

Authors

Martynov, E.

Cudell, J. R.

Soyez, G.

Description

We analyze the consequences of t-channel unitarity for photon cross sections and show what assumptions are necessary to allow for the existence of new singularities at $ Q^{2}=0 $ for the $ γp $ and $ γγ$ total cross sections. For virtual photons, such singularities can in general be present, but we show that, apart from the perturbative singularity associated with $ γ^{*}γ^{*}\to q\bar q $, no new ingredient is needed to reproduce the data from LEP and HERA, in the Regge region.
10 pages, LaTeX2e with kluwer.sty, 7 figures. Talk presented at the Second International "Cetraro" Workshop & NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Diffraction 2002", Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine, August 31 - September 6, 2002