Unitary Model of Regge Cuts

Abstract
We propose a method for generating Regge cuts based on the multiperipheral model in the approximation of vanishing coupling of the Pomeranchuk trajectory to production processes. We utilize a formalism which explicitly satisfies the full unitarity equations, including inelastic terms, for all connected multiparticle production amplitudes as well as for the two-body amplitude. The sign of the Regge cut coincides with the sign of the cut in the absorptive model, and is opposite to that of the Amati-Fubini-Stanghellini cut. The results are applied to the recent Serpukhov pp data.